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Recently Ramona Wink of KFXB-TV invited me to be her guest on her weekly program Connect.  What a delight to share what God will do when we bring our needs and fears to Him.

Click HERE to view the Connect video at YouTube.

Mari on Ramona Wink's program "Connect"

Thanks so much, Ramona and all the staff at KFXB-TV, for welcoming me so warmly!

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Have you put yourself out there only to end up feeling like a failure?   Afraid to try again?

You might be encouraged by…

Holes or Heights: Where will your fears take you?

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Traveling to Indiana & Iowa

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I’m speaking in both Indiana and Iowa in October–Starting with the Greencastle Christian Church “Fall Fashion Swap” where I’ll be sharing “Cute Shoes…But Can You Walk in Them?” and finishing up with Des Moines’ Capitol City Baptist Church as part of their “Relax, Refresh, Renew” Fall Retreat. Many Stonecroft gatherings, too. Find the entire schedule here. Continue reading 

Signed up for LIVING FRAGRANCE?

Just a note to let you know my Winter 2011 LIVING FRAGRANCE newsletter will soon brave chilly winter weather to slip fresh-cut flowers into email inboxes around the world! Will there be flowers in yours?

LIVING FRAGRANCE  brings you a fresh devotion, beautiful floral art and my current speaking schedule once each season of the year. I send out a few bonus issues here and there, but promise not to flood your inbox with frequent email. Readers of the Winter 2011 issue have an opportunity to win a full-color set of my latest floral greeting cards, so don’t miss out!

To subscribe, click on this link: LIVING FRAGRANCE SIGN-UP FORM

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go tell it on the mountain

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April and May will be a time of great adventures in speaking!  I’ll be traveling up and down Illinois and crossing the Mississippi a few times to visit Iowa and Missouri. And I’m excited to meet LOTS of people along the way!

I’ve started a free email newsletter call LIVING FRAGRANCE that focuses on the speaking side of my life.  Each issue will be full of fresh flowers from my garden as well as a short devotion, a few of my favorite Internet resources, notes about recent speaking adventures and a list of upcoming speaking events!

If you would like to subscribe to LIVING FRAGRANCE, just click HERE.

A subscription page will open in a new window.  See you there!

it’s almost here!

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The day I’ve looked forward to for a long, long time is less than a week away!

No, it’s not my wedding day.  I ran heart-racing, head-on into the waves of marital bliss years ago. But that exhilarating dance—of peace and excitement twirling around in me—is back!  Throw in a little game of leap-frog between faith and doubt every twenty-four hours or so and…you get the picture.

I keep dreaming of how everything will go at my first speaking engagement!  It’s not really my first;  I’ve been at it for a while now. But this is my first Christian event for women!  For so long, I have looked forward to speaking into the lives of women in the same tender, transparent and hope-filled way that so many Christian speakers have spoken into mine.  Good words, wonderful words—God has used them to challenge me, change me, comfort me, and move me—all to one end: To know Him, to love him and to live in Him more, and more, and more.

It’s my turn now—and I can hardly wait!

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Event:“The Radiant Christian Woman”Friday, Sept. 11th     6:30 to 8:30 pm
at Scotland Trinity Presbyterian Church
Macomb, IL  ~ click on link for details!

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