Welcome to Val’s annual goal series! We’re releasing a new goals related blog post each day. Sign up here to get notifications about all our new blog posts. I LOVE this time of year! I’ve been planning goals each year for as long as I can remember. In elementary, I made a list of goals before school started each year, and one year, I remember making it a goal to “be weird”.
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My 2023 Word: Delight (in the Process)
Welcome to Val’s annual goal series! We’re releasing a new goals related blog post each day. Sign up here to get notifications about all our new blog posts. One of my favorite parts of thinking and praying through the new year is picking a word of the year (WOTY). I don’t take it too seriously and it’s definitely not about manifesting something crazy. It’s simply something I want to keep in mind
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2022 Life-Changers
Welcome to Val’s annual goal series! We’re releasing a new goals related blog post each day. Sign up here to get notifications about all our new blog posts. In the last few years, I’ve started sharing the things that changed my life that year. Some are super deep and serious and others small but impacted me in some way that I specifically can pinpoint. Here’s this year’s list! 1. Prayer I always
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What I read in 2022
Welcome to Val’s annual goal series! We’re releasing a new goals-related blog post each day. Sign up here to get notifications about all our new blog posts. It’s always interesting looking back on the compilation of what I read in the year. Like, what about my season of life influenced the books I picked up? Notice any patterns? Below is everything I read in 2022, who I’d recommend them for
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2022 Goals Recap
Welcome to Val’s annual goal series! We’re releasing a new goals related blog post each day. Sign up here to get notifications about all our new blog posts. 2022 has been a weird year, and after the last two years that’s saying a lot. We kicked off the year with Covid and a trip to the ER, moved our mattress into my office in an attempt to get away from
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2022 Answered Prayers
Wednesday at 7:30 CST, Val will be prepping her journal on Instagram and our VMP Society Facebook group, join us!! We’re kicking off our annual goal series (sign up here to make sure you don’t miss a post!) with one of my favorite things: sharing answered prayers!! We’ve got to start here friends! For many of us, it’s been a challenging year, and taking time to recognize that God has
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Top blog posts of 2022
I hope you had a Merry Christmas and are still enjoying the festivities!! We’ll be kicking off our annual Goal Series on the blog tomorrow, but today, I wanted to recap the top blog posts this past year! I’m sharing 3 lists of 9 blog posts: the first is the most popular new posts written this year, next I shared some of my personal favorites from this year, and lastly,
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Prayer Life
How to create a prayer routine
This content was first featured on our podcast, Prayer in a Noisy World. If you’d rather listen to this topic, click here for Apple, here for Spotify, or find us on your favorite platform! Today, we’re talking about creating a prayer routine. Some of you love everything about the word routine and others of you are trying not to roll your eyes or exit out too quickly. Shouldn’t prayer be
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Live Well
On the Podcast: Theology
What we believe about God determines the way we pray. This week, we’re talking to a Bible teacher about beliefs that might be holding us back from a fruitful prayer life. We’re also switching it up on our solo episode with a little Q&A about whether or not it’s possible to pray (and receive) wrong prayers.**Grabbed your prayer journal for 2023? They’re available now in our shop! ** Ep. 64:
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Prayer Life
10 verses to pray through when you’re anxious
When anxiety hits me, few things can reach my heart like prayer. That seems to be the case for two reasons: It’s a moment when I get to remind myself of what is eternal because part of anxiety, for me at least, is struggling to grasp a sound mind and being rational. The other part is not being able to grasp what is rational even though I may know it
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Celebrate
Margin in Christmas: Doing
This week, we’re refreshing our tried and true Margin in Christmas series! Each day you can expect to see a blog post exploring a different way to peacefully practice Christmas. Last day to order from our prayer journal shop in time for Christmas is December 15, 2022! Confession. The last two years, a day or two after Christmas, my husband and I have gotten in a fight because I’m burnt out from a week