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🌿✨ Following the Whisper of My Dreams: A Heartfelt Call for Support ✨🌿
by Michelle Allen — Whispering Willow Kitchen There’s a certain kind of magic that happens when you step into your purpose. It’s quiet at first—like a soft breeze through the trees—easy to miss unless you’re paying attention. But once you hear it, once you feel it, you can’t ignore it. For me, that whisper has Continue reading
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Teaching Kindness: The Lessons Our Children Carry Forward
By Michelle Allen Every once in a while, a story crosses my path that stops me in my tracks — not because it’s shocking, but because it’s familiar. Too familiar. A child with autism excluded from a school trip. A little girl with Down Syndrome removed from a dance class because she couldn’t “keep up.” Continue reading
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🌿 Surviving on Grace (and Maybe a Little Caffeine)
By Michelle Allen There’s a phrase my friend Melody shared that has been echoing in my heart lately: “Just give grace. People are exhausted by life right now.” The more I sit with it as I drink my morning coffee, the more I realize how deeply true it is—and how much it has become my Continue reading
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Mastering Portion Control: A Simple Way to Stay on Track With Your New Year’s Goals
By Michelle Allen | Whispering Willow Kitchen Every January, we set big, beautiful goals for ourselves. Eat healthier. Feel better. Build routines that actually stick. And then… life happens. Schedules get busy, kids need rides, work piles up, and suddenly the quickest option becomes the easiest option. But here’s the truth I’ve learned—both in my Continue reading
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🌿 What If the Mission Was Never to Find Yourself?
My friend Melissa said something this morning that has been echoing in my heart ever since. One of those simple, piercing truths that stops you mid‑stride and makes you breathe a little deeper. She said: “What if the mission wasn’t — isn’t — to find yourself? What if the mission is to find God?” And Continue reading
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🌿 When a Heart Finally Says “Enough”
There are days when the weight of everything you’ve carried finally settles in your chest, and you realize just how heavy it has been. Today is one of those days for me. My heart hurts in a way that’s hard to put into words — not because I’m angry, and not because I’ve stopped caring, Continue reading
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Choosing Harmony in a World That Loves Conflict
The Quiet Strength of Letting Things Go Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about conflict — not the big, world‑shaking kind, but the everyday kind that happens in homes, families, friendships, and communities. The kind that wears you down slowly. The kind that steals your peace one small moment at a time. And I keep Continue reading
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The Scandalous Seed
A prayer: May we have eyes to see and ears to hear. In Jesus’ name, Amen. Today’s message at Inspire Church stayed with me long after the service ended. It was one of those sermons that doesn’t just teach — it reveals. It opens something. It unsettles something. It plants something. And fittingly, it all Continue reading
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💛The Things We Hold On To
Some childhood treasures stay with us not because of what they are, but because of who they connect us to — the hands that gave them, the memories wrapped around them, the traditions they carried forward. For me, that treasure was a book: Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore. It was a gift Continue reading
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🌿 What Is Your Mission?
This question has been sitting with me lately — not in a loud, demanding way, but in a quiet, persistent whisper that keeps returning when the world finally slows down enough for me to hear it. What is your mission? It’s a question that can feel overwhelming if we think of it as something grand Continue reading
