I was asked to give the devotional at our Women’s Fellowship meeting this past Saturday, and although I had three weeks to prepare, I couldn’t find a devotional out there online that worked.  Most of them that I read were far too preachy, way too judge-y, and basically… well… they sounded nothing like me.  The worst thing I could do was sit in front of those lovely ladies (and our guest speaker, Pastor Mark) and read something that preaches a message of expectation that we all become perfect June Cleaver clones that live the type of sinless Christian life you only see in Hallmark Christmas movies. That’s not me.  So I came back to my own blog (because I certainly write enough) and read through past posts to see if anything might work.  I settled on this post from 2013 and, after modifying it heavily, created my very first devotional, which I’m sharing below.

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