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  • Crushing Life or Being Crushed By It?

    @audreycfrank Admirers eagerly pressed forward as the beautiful actress swept through the adoring crowd. “She is crushing life,” one said, eyes glowing with a dreamy mix of veneration and envy.

  • Seen and Known

    I see you. I see your pursuit of worth. The way you try to walk without stumbling in those high heels. The nervous flutter of hands smoothing your dress, the careful way you styled your hair. I hea

  • Speak Your Beautiful Heart: Becoming Real

    @audreycfrank.com Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Psalm 62:8, NIV Since I was a child, I have had an inordinate desire to talk to someone.

  • Motherhood is a Pilgrimage
    The Pilgrimage of Motherhood

    According to the dictionary, a pilgrimage is a journey to a sacred place. Whether you are a mother who only held your child briefly in your womb, a mother who has outlived her children, a mother wh

  • Shame Disarmed
    Jesus disarms our shame with honor.

    disarm: take a weapon or weapons away from (a person, force, or country); remove the fuse from (a bomb), making it safe; deprive of the power to injure or hurt. (New Oxford American Dictionary) I a

  • Are You Faithful Regarding the Devoted Things?
    The devoted things belong to God.

    But the Israelites were unfaithful in regard to the devoted things; Achan son of Karmi, the son of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of them. -Joshua 7:1, NIV Sometimes open

  • The Plot to Put an End to the Work
    the enemy's plot to stop the work

      @audreycfrank Also our enemies said, “Before they know it or see us, we will be right there among them and will kill them and put an end to the work.”  -Nehemiah 4:11 They had come in t

  • Joy and Sorrow Side by Side
    Joy and Sorrow Run Side by Side

    @audreycfrank Joy and sorrow are inexplicably connected, and stubbornly present in the human experience. I once saw a sight most strange, two very different streams flowing side by side. In the dee

  • Lent in the Valley

    @audreycfrank I was walking on a narrow gravel road that wound its way along the edge of a high ridge overlooking a sweeping valley. I am usually nervous about heights, but I was too focused on the

  • Honor Revolution
    Around the globe humanity is finding honor through Jesus Christ

    Around the world, across borders and inside human hearts from every nation, a revolution is happening. People once suffocated by shame are taking their first gasping breath, eyes opening to a new l