Be a PEACEMAKER

Children of God,

Be kind. Choose joy. Love first. Give the benefit of doubt. Forgive. Be a peacemaker.

♥️ ,

Jules

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Julia Akin

When I was a kid dreaming of what I would be one day, I had three main dreams…first was to be a mom, second was to be a writer and third, a teacher. By the grace of God, I’ve somehow become all three! Together with my husband, Scott, we run a small farm, small family business, homeschool our five kiddos, he pastors a church and I work in women’s ministry and still manage to love each other well.

Do Not Be Afraid

Do Not Be Afraid

The thing about fear, (written from my perspective and experience) is that it lives in the dark, quiet places in our minds because we don’t want to talk about the things that scare us. The same as my children don’t like to recap a scary dream….people don’t want to give words to something they are afraid of. Instead, fear stays inside, it festers, it rears it’s ugly head and exaggerates our situations, crippling us, rendering us helpless in this state of anxiousness, panic, or flat out terror. We rationalize it, we feed it, and we keep it hidden. But God says, DO NOT BE AFRAID.

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Made For More?

Made For More?

Feeling like there’s ‘more’ to life, or even to each day, can feel heavy. Like you are not living up to some unwritten expectation, except it is written constantly in books and blogs and posts. It’s in our face daily that we are missing something, or missing out on something and the result becomes this feeling of stifling insufficiency. But what if your ‘more’ is right in front of you?

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Who are My People? You. All of You.

Who are My People? You. All of You.

Moms who breastfeed, formula feed, or use donated breast milk. Homeschool, private school, or public school families. Adoptive, birth, special needs…. Moms of superstars, moms of kids with ADHD, moms of the book worm or ones struggling to read…. People, at the end of the day, did you love them well? Then YOU are my people.

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