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![How to LOVE the Unlovable… [and #AcceptTheLoveChallenge]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image.png)
LOVING the unlovable is never easy, my friend!? But God calls us to do just that… We are called to love as God does with extraordinary grace and unfathomable love. The kind of immeasurable love Jesus displayed on the cross. And the kind of love God unfurled when He sent his son to die—for sinners…
To BELIEVE is to accept Truth; to feel certain that God is who He says He is—today, tomorrow, and forever! We can all be encouraged as we experience God moving and working in our lives. Matter of fact, it is through this evidence of God working in the midst of uncertainty in my life, time-and-time…
![Letting Go… [and Choosing Forgiveness]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/4D3767FE-F460-4E0E-9863-4C9FCE66CEEF.jpeg)
Fall is a season for letting go… Although it doesn’t feel very Fall-ish here in Hometown, OK with temps hovering around the nineties—I’m desperately searching for autumn-ness. Maybe it’s because the temperatures refuse to succumb. Or maybe it’s because we’re sliding into my mama’s favorite season and birthday month. But a heaviness hangs in the…
When I contemplated a FB live series at the suggestion of a friend, I immediately knew I wanted to talk about Dreams and Callings. God had been talking to me a lot about dreams in recent months. And interestingly enough, I had completely forgotten my 2021 Word of the Year was DREAM until just a…
![Divine Appointments… [Godwinks, Coincidences, and Heavenly Happenstance]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/5AB458DF-7091-42F2-BD93-8C3E7E4032C0-scaled-1.jpeg)
Without my prior knowledge and on more than one occasion, God has recently filled my calendar with divine appointments. Equal parts coming alongside others as they journey, but also being “loved on” in ways my tender heart needed. When visiting Nash-town last week, each family member had their “must-do” list of places to visit and things…
![Godly Mamas and Good Water… [one year later]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CAE93EFB-3332-4651-9FD9-F2F5993AFF1E-1024x1024-1.jpeg)
It was the Clifford women who gathered early that second morning to sing as we waited the arrival of others. Her favorite hymn was Rock of Ages. Mama knew (and sang) every word of each stanza. She likely played it on the piano thousands of times over her lifetime. “While I draw this fleeting breath,…
![Over My Head… [Hope and Prayer for Heavenly Justice]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/989549A1-53D5-4FA0-A1EE-7C9F1B6D2A76-1024x1013-1.jpeg)
Yesterday, someone in my feed asked the question “What moment over the past year stands out for you?” She was referring to George Floyd, of course. One such moment was the words of @esaumccaulley when He said “LOVE is sufficient to gather all the divided peoples of the world, people like George Floyd. There is…
![Returning Home… [and gift(s) from the sea]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CBE06D9E-B7C8-4F4D-826F-25E68F9EBF89-1024x1024-1.jpeg)
Recently, I spent a glorious three days with the fam on the beaches of Alabama. And although we weren’t able to make it all the way to our beloved 30-A, just being in Alabama and Mississippi rendered a strange sense of being back home!? Although, we’ve never lived in those places… Even stranger, as we…
![Prayers of Blessings… [and tears]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/66796F73-C7C9-40E4-8FE7-D9292EE0D441.jpeg)
Anybody who knows me at all, knows I’m a crier. As my family will attest, one risen lump in my throat and it’s ‘water works’ city. My grandmother, Nellie, was a crier. So much so, her crying became folly for a long-standing, ‘inside’ family joke… Around the late seventies, at the end of a very…