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It’s interesting how often times you can read a whole paragraph, or listen to a whole message, and only one word stands out. In my case, after writing my ‘Misconceptions of a Godly Woman’ post, Rachel and I awoke one morning to find our emails FLOODED with comments! Lots and LOTS of words expressing a wide
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It was on the corner of 52nd and 8th that I wept. I wept helplessly over lukewarm coffee and dry chocolate cake, in an uncomfortable green leather booth, at one of the only Manhattan diners that seemed to be open that late at night. Just hours before, my husband had been offered his dream job
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So we blew up the blogosphere this last week… Like for real, and entirely on accident! And as Rachel and I watched the number of daily visitors grow on our blog – doubling, tripling, and so on… and so on – I realized something new about myself… Success isn’t my scene. While it makes me momentarily
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My latest pet peeve is THIS. Every time someone living outside the city attempts to ‘minimize’ what it’s like living in New York City, something dies in my soul! “Oh, it’s not thaaaaat expensive…” “it can’t be thaaaaat busy…” It’s the emotional rage equivalent of telling a person who works out hours every single day,
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I realize that this post may offend certain people: Good people, people who I’d probably really get along with otherwise… But for the record, I am not sorry. Last week’s post Worthy of Rubies was me, buttoned up in my ‘Sunday’s best’ and smiling pretty. But over the last couple of days a fire has come over
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“Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is more precious than rubies.” – Proverbs 31:10 Over the years I have received lots of (unsolicited) advice on how to be a good wife…even long before I ever was one! One of the first instances came when I was only a teenager. I can clearly
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THIS. Is better than anything I could write. I don’t care how you listen to it, JUST DO IT! I promise, you wont regret it. Listen to it while you brush your teeth, or as you comb your hair. Put your phone in a bowl – yes, you heard right! – to amplify the uh-maziness and
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I could see the man struggling up ahead; battling the autumn wind as it blew the garbage can he was pulling, over in a fury. Tossing all of its contents out on the street, I watched from afar as the man ran around in a frenzy as the wind whisked everything in opposite directions, each
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When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love Hi, my name is Krista I have roughly 700 Facebook friends, and I currently reside in arguably
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This week I chose forgiveness… It started 6 months ago, when a mantra stirred at my heart, and laid the foundation to forgive those responsible for the deepest wounds hidden away in my heart. It goes like this… Most people, most of the time, are doing the best that they can. As simple as it
Krista Ortiz 