Joyful Life Devotions | Marnie Hammar

Joyful Life Devotions

Every day, the Joyful Life Magazine (@joyfullifemagazine) posts inspiring devotions written by a team of gifted writers I admire and adore. I am deeply honored to be on this team. You can find more devotions written by the rest of the team over at Instagram.

Marnie Hammar

Sep 8

The Sweetness that Comes When We Taste and See

For years, I’ve stared down pineapples at the grocery store, telling them that I’d enjoy them more if they’d just be a bit, you know, eas...

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Aug 24

On Flourishing and Forcing

Late last summer, we planted a new hedge. Well, bushes that would grow together to form a sort of hedge-type thing, anyway. For almost a ...

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Aug 20

Finding Peace Even in Shifting Sands

I never thought I would buy face masks at Old Navy. Or sneak a side-eye at the current supply of toilet paper at Target. Or gravitate tow...

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Aug 11

The Hope of Happy Endings

When I was a child, one of my favorite books had a hardbound gray linen cover with embossed gold lettering. Inside, bound in between the ...

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Jul 28

On the Legacy We Leave

This year, when we piled everything into the car for our vacation, we added all five sets of golf clubs. As much as I don’t love how much...

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Jul 10

God's Work When Goals Sit Dormant

It’s been sitting there since March, its teal linen cover collecting dust, and its spiral-bound, tabbed pages stuck in the past. Every da...

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Jul 2

The Ministry of the Ordinary

I feel it slipping away. Like an unstoppable tide, I see reopening arriving, and I fear what it will take with it as it rolls back out. W...

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Jun 3

The Little Big Things We Share

I walked into my office and found a yellow sticky note with a tiny penciled apology from my nine-year-old. During “school” at home that m...

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May 30

Let Me Take and Eat

Every day they come, this family of deer that lives in the woods behind my very suburban house. They live in a small, narrow strip of lan...

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May 19

The Beauty Inside This Chrysalis

As I look out the window—the view from which has become a gift—and see the sidewalks that connect to the places I remember, I feel torn. ...