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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Merry Christmas Eve friend! I don&#8217;t know how your plans are going but I wanted to encourage you with something I wrote for Proverbs 31 Ministries today and share a Christmas prayer I post each year, in hopes that it will calm and connect your heart with Jesus, the way it does for me each [&#8230;]</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>“Maybe this will be the year everything goes as planned, and we’ll have the perfect Christmas.” I thought. Perfect is what I’d always wanted for Christmas, but in all my years of living I have never been able to pull it off. Perfect looks like peace on earth and in my home for twenty-four hours. [&#8230;]</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I remember the day I hit rock bottom as a mom. Tired of struggling with comparison, self-defeat, and my cruel inner critic, I desperately wanted and needed things to change. But I didn’t know what changes were needed until I got brave enough to ask Jesus to show me. I started asking Him to help [&#8230;]</p>
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