Prep Time.
A lesson in preparation & the six things I can’t live without when painting. Seven pm, almost on the dot, my leg neuropathy kicks into...
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Amie Beth
- Mar 18, 2022
- 4 min
Let the SUNSHINE in.
These plants, sitting in these windows, on this beautiful day… They are healthy. They are growing. They are happy here. Or at least I...
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Amie Beth
- Oct 21, 2020
- 3 min
This Ampersand Life
“I’ve gone through a divorce and I still believe in marriage. I was a single parent, and I still got most things done. I was in a career...
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Amie Beth
- Oct 14, 2020
- 3 min
A Beautiful Hope from the Raining Ashes
The mountains in California, and cities surrounding them, are ablaze. Some of those fires are in the mountains not far from our home. Ash...
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Amie Beth
- Sep 14, 2020
- 4 min
Hope Floats & Hope Dealers.
Right now, I’m in the proverbial ninth month of birthing a book baby and it feels very much like waiting to birth a real baby. It’s part mis
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Amie Beth
- Aug 5, 2020
- 5 min
Breathing Room, a Landing Place, and Hope Fully (hopefully soon).
BOOK UPDATE: Jesus had been tugging at my heart to write this book for YEARS. I think I’ve mentioned it before, but I never started...
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Amie Beth
- Jul 31, 2020
- 5 min
Run. Hide. Fight.
I was sitting at work one day this week providing training to a new hire and going over our store Active Shooter Plan. The fact that we...
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Amie Beth
- Jul 23, 2020
- 5 min
Empty Places
This week my house is empty. The kids are off at our church camp (except this year it’s not beach camp). They are at a mountain resort,...
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Amie Beth
- Jul 14, 2020
- 3 min
Bound to be Bound by Something.
I learned something I never knew about words this week. Maybe you've heard of it, but I had not! Contronym. A single word with two...
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Amie Beth
- Jul 7, 2020
- 6 min
Pretty Things. A Pretty Life. And Some Pretty Words.
If you walk up to my front porch you’ll already get a glimpse of my quirky, decorator's heart. There’s a set of rocking chairs with seat...
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Amie Beth
- Jun 30, 2020
- 4 min
Mickey Mouse, Grandpa Frank, a child, & HOPE
Six years have passed since he passed. It is summer. Way past hot. The walls wear beads of sweat from the swamp cooler trying to do its...
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Amie Beth
- Jun 23, 2020
- 3 min
Corn Pasta and Jesus
The minivan pulls up at the end of my front walkway about the same time I get the text message announcing its arrival. I’m already one...
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Amie Beth
- Jun 15, 2020
- 4 min
Hope isn't lonely. Be a Hope Dealer.
I’ve discovered something about finding hope in the middle of a mess that I didn’t expect. Hope isn't lonely. Meet fellow #hopedealer Sami!
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Amie Beth
- Jun 9, 2020
- 4 min
For Goodness Sake
I want to tell you, whatever side you fall on, that you are loved. You are seen. You are heard.
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Amie Beth
- Jun 2, 2020
- 3 min
Put on your mask & stay six feet from Jesus
As I sit here more than two months into quarantine, I'm asking myself not how I'll cope in the lock down life, but how will I press in
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Amie Beth
- May 26, 2020
- 4 min
Jesus Before Tacos, and a note to my NOT single-parent friends.
Jesus Before Tacos (Even on Tuesdays). That's our family motto. I've created us a logo. I've secured the Instagram account name,...
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Amie Beth
- May 22, 2020
- 2 min
Flowers and Friendship
Several times in the last couple of months flowers have show up on my doorstep for no other reason than a friend who loves me wanted me...
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Amie Beth
- May 16, 2020
- 4 min
Start at the very beginning.
I hope as I open up our messy, downright beautiful life to you that you will see some of yourself in us, see hope in the hard things, and f
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