She looked at him with alligator tears at the corners of her eyes, grew calm, and took a deep breath.

“I need some time alone.”

Pete and I glanced at each other. What did this mean?

“Okay,” Pete said. “Take a moment to be alone.”

She climbed off the bed, turned on the light in our closet, went in, and closed the door.

“Up the hill and down the hill?! Those are our directions?”

“Yes.”

Those were our directions. I’m not sure whether or not they got us to our destination.

Yet I know we had to know where we were going in order to seek how to get there.
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Where are you going? Are you on track?

Here’s another true life story to illustrate:
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I’ve heard it too many times.

A daughter of the Lord Almighty, obeying His call on her life, and she feels as though she needs to apologize for it.

When the group ended, I approached this beautiful woman.

“I’d like to challenge the idea that you are just a stay-at-home-mom,” I said.

She looked at me, silent, waiting.
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“What if you considered yourself a Home Maker – two words.

Someone who cultivates a nurturing environment, where everyone who lives there is loved for who they are, and launched to be who the Lord made them to be.”​

Titus 2 gives us a glimpse of the high and holy calling the Lord has given you as a woman:
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