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Jacque Watkins

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Quieted with His Love

by Jacque Watkins

Sundays are for knowing He is with us, and for our hearts being quieted by His overwhelming and amazing love…   May your heart know He is with you…that He IS mighty to save, and may you be quieted with His love as He sings over you this day, is my prayer.   How have you been overwhelmed […]

Satisfying Rest

by Jacque Watkins

Rest. I must admit, it’s a rare commodity for me these days. I am going a million gazillion miles a minute in this new vibrant, invigorated, and very full life of mine. So many hats…a wife, mom, teacher, friend, mentor, nurse, daughter… so many purposes and goals, and still only a finite number of minutes […]

Bible in 90 Days {Week 8}

by Jacque Watkins

What an amazing time I continue to have reading the Bible in 90 days! Today…day #51, and as I’m continuing to read I am learning so much! There is so much to absorb and learn in God’s Word, and yet reading at this pace brings it together in a unique and awesome way!

I Can Still Remember, and I Give Thanks

by Jacque Watkins

I can still remember as I sat on the couch that day, tears streaming in an unrelenting flow and I will never forget that day in May…the very day that would have been my 9th wedding anniversary of my previous marriage. Me having been divorced…and now remarried. Me experiencing, that day, the first of my […]

Being Held in His Hand

by Jacque Watkins

Sundays are for looking to Him, and knowing He will strengthen and help you and uphold you with His righteous right hand…   May you surrender any anxiety and fear this day, and know He is holding you in His righteous right hand. How has He strengthened and helped you?

Giving Thanks for the Day that WILL Come

by Jacque Watkins

I’m joining Lisa-Jo, over at her site today, to take five minutes and just write without worrying if it’s just right or not. The challenge is to write for 5 minutes flat with no editing, tweaking or self critiquing, with the prompt she gives. And today, her prompt: Older…. Go! Older with each passing day […]

Moments and Chances for Grace-Giving

by Jacque Watkins

I sat at the restaurant table frustrated…could this really be happening? {Their menu had changed again, for the fourth time in a year, and I suppose they think it is creative marketing to always be reinventing their menu.} But why must they ALWAYS eliminate my favorite dish? And so I ordered something similar, …or so I thought. […]

Never say never! {Curriculum 2011-2012}

by Jacque Watkins

If you would have asked me one year ago if I would ever homeschool, my answer would have been a resounding “NO!…I would never do that!”…with much emphasis and much passion. You see, I delivered four children within five and a half years, and my light at the end of the tunnel (for increasing independence and free time) was […]

Satisfied in the Morning

by Jacque Watkins

Sundays are for being satisfied in the morning with His steadfast love… May your heart be satisfied by His unwavering love this day and may you rejoice and be glad in it!  What is your heart rejoicing about today? 

New Life

by Jacque Watkins

New life. So innocent and full of limitless potential, and what a privilege I have, to witness it come forth each day I go to work. This new life-like wet cement awaiting impressions… An impending imprinting, that will determine a heart’s condition for a lifetime. And I have spent this day as the nurse, helping this […]

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Hi and welcome! I'm a Grace-clinger, Mercy-lover, wife, and mom to five ... a writer, part-time labor & delivery nurse, and podcaster of Mud Stories, who believes we are so very loved, and never, ever alone! I'm so very glad you're here! Read more about me here...

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