Marnie Hammar
Oh, Come Let Us Adore Him
I stayed up late again to watch a Hallmark Christmas movie, ignoring the pile of dishes that had crawled from the sink to the counters....
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Marnie Hammar
- Dec 5, 2019
- 2 min
Lift Your Gaze
As the number that is my age climbs higher, the number of times that I can go around in circles sinks lower. So when we went on a fall...
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Marnie Hammar
- Nov 21, 2019
- 2 min
Looking in the Right Place
"Navy blue soccer sock, we know there are eight of you in this house, and yet, you have succeeded in eluding our search efforts once...
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Marnie Hammar
- Oct 9, 2019
- 2 min
When Rejection Crowds Out the Rest of the Story
[This essay was published at (in)courage as a guest post.] I was eleven when we moved from a rural town nestled in Amish Country,...
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Marnie Hammar
- Oct 8, 2019
- 2 min
Walking in His Light
As my kids packed their backpacks for school, I snatched a glance out my dining room window. The sunlight was just peeking over the...
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Marnie Hammar
- Oct 7, 2019
- 2 min
Faith or Fear?
As I sat on my deck, a robin foraged noisily through a wet pile of leaves in my yard, pulling my attention away from my heavy thoughts....
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Marnie Hammar
- Sep 29, 2019
- 1 min
The Appearance of Growth
I bought these adorable, low maintenance succulents that look so uniform that they appear artificial. As they took their place on the...
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Marnie Hammar
- Sep 24, 2019
- 2 min
Splinters & Stillness
My eight-year-old son sits next to the bathtub, his left foot resting on the edge, sobbing, “I hate my life.” We’re on day four of...
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Marnie Hammar
- Jun 7, 2019
- 1 min
Spiritually Dry Summer? Choosing Delight Over Checklists
Maybe this summer will be different. Maybe this time summer will be filled with long, glorious days of sticky s’mores and campfires and...
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Marnie Hammar
- May 2, 2019
- 1 min
Will You Run the Race Set Before You?
[This post is featured over at Revelation Wellness, as a guest post for their blog, run on May 1, 2019.] There was a pit of unsettledness...
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Marnie Hammar
- Apr 30, 2019
- 3 min
We Can't Welcome Spring Without the Soil
It never fails. When spring offers its long-awaited warmer temps and my boys burst outside, slopping through the softening gunk and mud,...
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Marnie Hammar
- Jan 9, 2019
- 4 min
New Year's Goal: Embrace Growth and Grace
Let’s talk about what just happened. Remember December? We taught our kids about Jesus' birth, we did the advent calendar, we bought the...
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Marnie Hammar
- Oct 4, 2018
- 4 min
Confessions from Soccer Carpool
I’m nearly damaging my steering wheel with my anxious gripping, waiting for the red light to turn. My middle son is lacing his soccer...
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Marnie Hammar
- Sep 15, 2018
- 3 min
I am not your Happy Maker
Summer closes on my 13th year as a mama. After I see my three boys off to school, and I’m left with my first moments of quiet since May...
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