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That Pain You Feel Is Real {On The Myth of Maternal Instinct & Learning to Ask For Help}
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I've successfully avoided social media for the ent

I've successfully avoided social media for the entirety of 2023, which means I'm not going to tell you how many tries it took me to get a selfie I was willing to post. 🙈

But I had to get back online to share this labor of love, hot off the presses: How to Keep Your Faith After High School.

In my work with @corechristianity, I spend a lot of time helping brilliant writers bring beautiful and important truths into the world. But when this idea came up in a meeting more than a year ago, I refused to pass this project along. I know really well how to NOT keep your faith after high school and, especially now with a high schooler in my home, I care a lot about stopping that legacy in its tracks.

It's been really sweet to reflect on the Lord's kindness and mercy in my life as I attempted to draft a road map for those coming up behind me. It might not be exhaustive, but I pray it's helpful. If nothing else, I hope this little booklet serves as a testimony to the Lord's power: if he can save me, surely he can save anyone.

So, get a free copy for the high schoolers and young adults in your life! Read it as a parent to help you think about what's important in these formative years! Help me spread the word! They're available now at corechristianity.com/booklets

Here's the Christmas card we didn't get sent this

Here's the Christmas card we didn't get sent this year. 😬 Merry Christmas from the Dahls! 🎄

Fear not then, said the Angel
Let nothing you affright
This day is born a Savior
Of a pure Virgin bright
To free all those who trust in Him
From Satan's pow'r and might
Oh tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
Oh tidings of comfort and joy 💕

15 years ago, this sunshine girl made me a mom. 😭🥰 She got to do back-to-back nights of celebrating with her besties, including a sweet reunion for us with some of our favorites. 🥳

As we reflect on the challenging year it's been for Hadley, I can't help but marvel at the Lord's faithfulness---not only in providing for us and sustaining us around every bend, but in wisely appointing the very circumstances he'll use to strengthen Hadley's faith and shape her character. We couldn't be more proud of the young woman she's becoming. Our Father gives good gifts, and she is one of his best to us. 💕

This is probably going to go really well. 😸🎄

This is probably going to go really well. 😸🎄🤦

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Fun fact: On the day before Thanksgiving 12 years

Fun fact: On the day before Thanksgiving 12 years ago, @jordanmdahl and I went on our first date, oblivious to the fact that we would be married less than 4 months later and even less aware of the beautiful life we would get to build together over the next decade-and-counting.

I often fail to be grateful for that beautiful life--for the Lord's abundant kindness to us--so I'm glad for days like today where I can pause and reflect on his many good gifts to me: my husband's patience, my children's delight, my parents' generosity, the wonder of national forests and giant canyons, the promise of good food, and most of all, the hope of new mercies every morning in his Son. Happy Thanksgiving from the Dahls!

"Know that the Lord, he is God!
it is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!

For the Lord is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations."
Psalm 100:3-5

Girls night at the theater did not disappoint. 👌

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