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Expectation vs. Reality

I’ve been silent in the blogosphere for a long time now, but I think my readers will understand, given the circumstances! It’s been a long year. And I mean a loooooooong year. This season started with Laura’s water breaking last July, followed by 6 weeks of bed rest, 4 months of NICU and Ronald McDonald House, and this week it will have been 5 months since Ava was discharged and we were finally…

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How to Find Your Balance

How to Find Your Balance

I am no expert in this area, and I certainly don’t have everything together, but I can share what I’ve learned from my experiences and my mistakes! I am sure many of you can relate to this scenario: you look at your schedule and you realize with a sinking feeling that you won’t see much of your friends or family in the next three weeks. You have a wedding to attend this weekend, you are working…

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Our #essentialoils order came in just in time for Christmas! #youngliving #jumpingonthebandwagon

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#sirmackthedog gets an early Christmas present! #🎁🎄

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I’m Back

It’s been what - nine months since I’ve made a Tumblr post? Enough time to what - have a baby? Finish grad school? All of the above?? Yes and yes. Say hello to Master Jared, social media marketing expert, and his perfect little son, Noah Ezra, born on September 25th of this year. I’m excited to be back in the blogosphere. I’ll be posting personal thoughts and content on Tumblr and more professional and educational content on my Wordpress (theholysalesman.wordpress.com). Hopefully I still have one or two followers still left out there. If not, I guess I’ll just write for the joy of it. 

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Hey! The amazingly beautiful, kind, smart, hilarious, Spirit-filled woman that I am blessed to call my wife turns a quarter-of-a-century old today! Happy Birthday, my sweet, sweet wifey!!

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Holy Spirit, Break Every Chain, and Set a Fire make for a great chapel set list! @swu_edu #praiseJesus

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Love this perspective.

“But my covenant I will establish with Isaac.” - Genesis 17:21

Can you imagine what it would be like to have a baby without the support of your family? It seems unthinkable. I mean, I know you’re not supposed to look back on people in history and judge them by the current standards of your own...

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Christmas in @SWU_Admissions!

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The wifey enjoys some backyard time with the puppy #sirmackthedog #fall

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My mother-in-law took me, Laura, and Austin to see #BiltmoreHouse today! Definitely a Black Friday to remember!

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Thankful for my family, thankful for my wifey! #obligatorythanksgivingpost Photo cred: @atrudel_photography

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Great visit to #KoinoniaFarm to see Tim and experience daily life at Koinonia. I got to package chocolate in the bakery, feed chickens and gather eggs, attend chapel services, eat delicious farm fresh food, watch cows get herded, and meet lots of wonderful people! #community

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Take Your Place

This song never gets old.

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Four Years

Apparently I have been tumblring for four years now! I post much less often now. I guess that's what happens when you graduate and get a job and get married and stuff like that. But I do plan to blog more regularly in the future! There's been a lot of thoughts and revelations brewing on this side of the keyboard . . .

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When the sun comes up and morning breaks I think of all I have to do today So I will stir myself to meditate On the thing that gives me strength 'Cause Your Word is precious to me

Jon Thurlow, Your Word

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Hot cider and delicious homemade pumpkin cookies made by my wife #ilovefall