May 2013
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Great grace, and Truest trust.
Hey there all you in blogesphere.
It’s been a while since I’ve written, I know. Circumstantially, I just haven’t had the writers bug. I’ve been working 40, 50 hour weeks, and really loving it. There are those moments, though, where I wish I could go back to the way things used to be. This single thing has been really, really hard for me. When you love someone, it’s really hard to stop loving them...
Unconventional grace.
A woman in the Bible, Rahab, was a prostitute. She was spared during a battle in her city because she wanted to be on the “side of God”. Well her lineage is something in the history books for sure, as her family tree goes like this: Rahab is the mother of Boaz, Boaz is the father of Obed, who was the father of Jesse, who was the father of David…. Skipping a couple of generations...
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Support Samantha for Bethel School of Worship! →
I’m going to Bethel School of Worship in order to grow in the gifts that God has given me! Hopecity has graciously helped, and now I just need a little extra support for the month I will be gone!
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April 2013
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The Dad Dilemma.
To my sweet twentysomething friends: I recently have broken up with my boyfriend, Tyler - and in support, some of my single girlfriends in ministry, and myself, created a blog for girls like us who need to cope, but not in front of people we don’t know face to face… On the blog, we talk real life, real feelings, and fight for our relationship with a real God who we know loves us WAY...
Still Single. →
Tales and Trials of the girls in 503.
If you’re single and you know it clap your hands! *clapclap*
Meet me and my single friends as we talk real life. For seriousness.
<3
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I need a hero.
Did you too sing those first few lines of the ever so popular diva-esque song? I know I did, and I don’t even remember who sang it. Tina Turner, or Whitney? Meh. Details.
But I do like the title of my ‘first blog in quite some time’. (It really has been a while)… I don’t know what I have been doing, but OBVIOUSLY it wasn’t writing to you fine, and loverly...
March 2013
2 posts
A little transparency for ya...
It’s 11:21pm and I’m heating up the stove for my gluten free mac ‘n cheese from New Seasons. It’s Monday, and I am tired. I have a new fantastic job working with teen moms as a residential counselor, and I worked an overnight shift, and I feel like my body is still trying to re-coup from all that. Tears on the edge of my eyes and my heart is a little tender these days. I...
February 2013
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For Farther Than Your Eyes Can See...: Valentines... →
fartherthanyoureyescansee:
My love(s),
By now you know that your mom is crazy for Valentine’s day. I want you to know that even before I was married to your Dad, Valentine’s day was still my favorite holiday. I’m going to talk to you about relationships really quick but I don’t want to waste your time because I’m not even…
This is my best friend, and she is writing letters to her future...
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His Love Never Fails.
I waited a long, long time to have a Valentine. 23 years, minus that one year in the 7th grade when Leland Tebo was my boyfriend. The chocolate rose he gave me broke, and I could barely dance one slow song with him, before I ran away to the bathroom to freak out.
I’ve come a long way since then, I have. I think.
Today, I am in love. With two people actually. I’m first and...
January 2013
4 posts
Anonymous asked: That was powerful and real Sam! I truly believe that too: God really wants to restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish us to our completeness in Him. I'm so ready and walking towards this with the Lord in my life too. It's amazing how He moves the same but in different ways with us all. How amazing He is! Thank you for sharing your heart <3
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Restore.
Before you read, please scroll down to the bottom of this page, and click ‘play’ and ‘repeat’, on the following instrumental song :)
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I tend to start off blogs describing where I’m at, what I’m doing, and what is surrounding me. I’m very much a “sight, touch, smell” person. Hands on, I guess you would call it. I want others to know...
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heads up...
I’m still alive :) See you soon!
December 2012
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Sometimes it's good to hear.
Striving for excellence wasn’t God’s intention. Striving takes a lot of joy out of us. It takes a lot of energy out of our already very tired bones. Striving causes us to think that what we do, isn’t ever going to be good enough.
But God says this: Take my yoke upon you when you are weary, and I will give you rest. I will help you. My strength is all you need - for it is...
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When is enough, really enough?
My outlet has revolved around a 30something character keyboard attached to a 14 inch computer screen. I have no doubt that someday I’ll write a book. Probably a fictional narrative of a girl who found love through the color mauve, the Oregon Coast and the smiles and anxiousness of her twentysomething nature. Oh the stories it will tell!
I remember one time when I was probably no more...
Anonymous asked: Your December 6th post....tears. The way you worded that was beautiful, in the midst of heartache and unbelievable screw ups and imperfection, He doesn't care, He still loves us....wow. That's true love.
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It's complete, utter, perfect, total, sheer,...
I take a deep breath with my feet propped up on the chair in front of me with the soft chatter of voices and teeth in a coffee shop in NW Portland. I breathe in the simple scent of the perfume I tried on today while at Nordstrom. I had a day to myself, where I had this wonderful feeling that things are just always going to work out.
1. According to the counsel of His will {Ephesians 1:11}
2....
November 2012
9 posts
Everyday
I smile as I take a deep breath. The yoga video I did with my roommate the other day said that when you smile slightly as you take in a deep breath, it opens up your lungs a little more… or something like that. All I know is that it really does help get you to that place where you can actually take a deep breath. A full one. It feels fantastic.
It’s black Friday here in the NW...
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Gratitude Continued. . .
Gratitude continued… 65-83
twentysomethinglove.com/gratitude
Lord, You are good. So, so good.
Wherever you are at in your life, there is an invitation to scope out the goodness of God. There is an invitation to see the nooks and crannies of His grace, and greatness. An invitation to see the true marks of a Maker.
65. Hopecity ladies - each unique, beautiful, and treasured.
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Redefining Vitality.
Seventeen years old and I was being called into full-time ministry. I promised God that I would live purely, and righteously for Him, and for His cause. I laid down my agenda, my own dreams, and after the course of six years I am finding myself at the crossroads that collide against one another, once again.
What am I living for? Who am I doing this for? Is this bringing God Glory?
In...
“His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut...
Jeremiah 20:9
Gratitude Continued. . . →
Searching through the truths of God this morning -...
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{Fearless Faith = Automatic Movement}
Happy Halloween from the cozy little coffee shop I’ve made my place at today.
Going through the Book of John slowly but surely, as I really felt it was something I needed to go through. It’s a a part of the Bible that doesn’t really tell you about the love of God, as much as it really shows you the love of God through the actions and works of Jesus.
The chapter I am in...
October 2012
18 posts
“As you linger at the window ledge searching for a glimmer of your knight’s...”
– (via passionforpurpose)
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I gave it all up.
It’s hard to explain.
Tears filled my eyes as I sat down with a beloved mentor on Monday.
“I’m not that girl anymore, I don’t even know who that was…”
We were talking about depression.
I faced it for a very, very long time.
A portion was just two and a half years trapped under long sleeved shirts, large sweatshirts, and plastered on smiles.
When...
He can wink with both eyes!
When I think about the life I would like to have, I am often pulled to this beautiful idea. The idea being in a large, old home, with a wrap around porch, rocking chairs, patio furniture, a lovely garden, and my kids playing in the front yard. I think about company coming over all the time. My women’s discipleship group all huddled together in the cozy confinement during the early hours...
Isn't it amazing that the Lord keeps no record of...
Yes.
Isaiah 44:22 {I have swept away your sins like a cloud. I have scattered your offenses like the morning mist. Oh, return to me, for I have paid the price to set you free.”}
and…
Isaiah 43:25 {I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.}
So That I Will... (re-post from January 30)
I wrote this blog two days after I was broken up with in the most informal of ways. Receiving an email from this guy this morning wanting to meet up to talk about what happened, didn’t make a highlight, but it did make for some interesting thoughts and a little nervousness. I found this entry in my old blog -mytwentysomethinglove.blogspot.com
Maybe you need to take on the “count it...
My Friday and Saturday nights consist of tucking little ones into sleep, and singing sweet lullaby tunes. The strange feelings to go out and “be young” are gone, and replaced with the desire to be young, where there is already youth.
I love my job.
Slow and steady wins the race.
I have noticed some things lately in my approach to love others… I’m all about grace, baby! I am SO not the person that street preaches and tells you to turn or burn… I’m the grace abounds and live free because Christ paid it all, type of person. I’m a here are the facts, and let’s walk through this together, not a here are the facts, do them, now, or else,...
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When you're feeling worn...
I have these leggings. They’ve been worn so many times, to the point of tearing, and I really really do not want to replace them. I really would love to wear them clear into shorts… But I’ve got to let them go. I’ve got to eventually get a new pair of leggings.
You may see where I’m going with this.
Here is the scripture that the Lord brought me to this...
northerncreation asked: I LOVE YOU!!!! & miss you bunches. All that ever needed to be said in the world.
“Only you can see the good in broken things; You took this heart of stone and made it whole and set this prisoner free -… Whatever’s in front of me, I choose to sing Hallelujah.” I choose to look past my fears, my faults, my insanely high expectations, and in whatever circumstances to count. it. all. joy. ♥
Thoughts on a thursday morning.
As I sit here on a Thursday morning, (here being my friends overstuffed sectional piece of suede loveliness), I breathe in this past week’s opportunities and events. I can‘t believe that I accomplished everything I have, and it’s only Thursday. My brain says it’s Saturday for some reason – I fight that thought to the death because I still have so much more to do before Friday. This weekend I am...
“He is the Rock, His works are perfect, and all His ways are just.
A faithful...”
– Deuteronomy 32:4
Anonymous asked: Hey Sam! This is Sam as well, Sammie Mahaffy to be specific, I don't have a tumblr account but I like browsing your page from time to time because you write such wonderful things =) I absolutely agree with everything you wrote! It's all so very beautiful & it may sound a bit cliche but I will defintely be praying for you in this time of singleness. It's something to be embraced...
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Apparently today is national boyfriend day. It's...
It’s crazy to think that just 3 weeks ago I was lagging. I was tired, and sad, and not rested…
Today I am shouting from the rooftops that the Lord heals, sets free, and enjoys us.
He enjoys loving us in our angst.
I am so thankful that He is faithful.
