Reflections on Faith -- Christian Feminist Blog http://bellebrita.com/category/beliefs/faith/ A Christian Feminist Lifestyle Blog Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:07:02 +0000 en hourly 1 70618101 I Will Never Have the Best Year of My Life http://bellebrita.com/2025/07/death-birth-sorrow-joy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=death-birth-sorrow-joy Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:07:02 +0000 http://bellebrita.com/?p=8019 When I graduated high school, my friend Matt was the valedictorian. In his class address, he said that our four years together were good, but they weren’t the best years of our life. The best years were yet to come. It was a good speech. At the time, I didn’t have much to compare it... [Read More]

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]]> 8019 My Eye is on the Sparrow http://bellebrita.com/2020/02/my-eye-is-on-the-sparrow/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-eye-is-on-the-sparrow Thu, 27 Feb 2020 01:17:13 +0000 http://bellebrita.com/?p=7502 Welcome to the eighteenth day of the 2020 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Spirituality. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Strength.  While brainstorming today’s blog post, I looked out at the bird-feeders in my front garden. Immediately the words came... [Read More]

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]]> 7502 Learning How to Live with Grief http://bellebrita.com/2020/02/living-with-grief/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-with-grief Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:00:56 +0000 http://bellebrita.com/?p=7450 Welcome to the twelfth day of the 2020 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Challenges. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Respect.  Grief is a learning process. It’s been 4 1/2 years since my mom died. I still think about... [Read More]

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]]> 7450 Grief is Weird: I Still Mourn People I Barely Knew http://bellebrita.com/2019/02/grieving-acquaintances/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grieving-acquaintances Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:51:26 +0000 http://bellebrita.com/?p=6799 Welcome to the fifteenth day of the 2019 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Heartache. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Strength.  Last week, for the first time in four years of hosting the Love Blog Challenge, I didn’t have a blog... [Read More]

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]]> 6799 When Forgiveness is Abused http://bellebrita.com/2019/02/forgiveness-abuse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=forgiveness-abuse Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:40:12 +0000 http://bellebrita.com/?p=6759 Welcome to the eleventh day of the 2019 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Forgiveness. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Compromise.  Earlier this month I wrote a post on boundaries. I shared a few personal–but vague–stories of relatives who have violated... [Read More]

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]]> 6759 4 Ways to Connect to Your Faith Daily in the New Year http://bellebrita.com/2019/01/connect-your-faith-daily/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=connect-your-faith-daily Wed, 09 Jan 2019 11:00:49 +0000 http://bellebrita.com/?p=6578 Have you set a New Year’s resolution to reconnect with your faith this year? This guest post from Ginger Tarkowski will help! Ginger is a wife and busy mom of two daughters who are her whole world. She enjoys spending time with her family as much as possible and loves to be outdoors. I hope her... [Read More]

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