by Tiffany Bluhm | Dec 3, 2018 | Heart and Soul
“Never give up on your dreams, my darling, for they are your birthright, and you owe it to the world to become the Queen, you are. Mark Anthony Above my bed hangs a gold metal frame with a message that reads: “Breathing dreams like air.” It’s a line from F. Scott...
by Tiffany Bluhm | Nov 26, 2018 | Heart and Soul
The morning of the orphanage visit I had been reading Ephesians 3 and had never been so deeply moved by Paul’s encouragement to the church in Ephesus, as I was that day. Verses 17 through 19 reads, “I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have...
by Tiffany Bluhm | Nov 19, 2018 | Heart and Soul
November is Adoption Awareness Month. It’s a time to examine the why and how of adoption. To raise awareness and tell honest stories. This is a snippet of mine. It’s not a bright and shiny story. It’s a story born out of loss. One of struggle. Most...
by Tiffany Bluhm | Nov 12, 2018 | Heart and Soul
Isaiah 61 and its message of freedom for the captive first resonated with me when I was seventeen. I did believe freedom was available and was found in Jesus, yet I could not shake the self-punishment of refusing freedom for myself while insisting on it for others. I...
by Tiffany Bluhm | Nov 5, 2018 | Heart and Soul
Although my parents took me to church as a child, the truth of it all didn’t really click until middle school. A friend from school invited me to the church youth group she and her friends attended. I had no idea what waited for me in the multi-purpose room of that...
by Tiffany Bluhm | Oct 18, 2018 | Heart and Soul
Do you ever feel like you are constantly trying to control the behavior of your child? I know I don’t always thoughtfully take into consideration their unique hurts, insecurities, frustrations, and opinions. What if tried harder to become a source of goodness,...
