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Karen Ehman

Nascido: March 10, 1964 – Lansing, Michigan, United States

Karen Ehman is a Christian author, Bible teacher, and Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker whose work centers on faith, communication, marriage, and women’s spiritual growth. She is best known for Keep It Shut and Zip It, and is a New York Times bestselling author whose books and Bible studies have reached a broad evangelical audience. ((https://karenehman.com/about-karen/?utm_source=openai))

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Karen Ehman’s path as a writer began early in Michigan, where she has said she loved talking and writing from childhood and was already creating material for school by elementary age. She wrote a Christmas play in fifth grade, contributed poetry and newspaper pieces in middle school, and later served as sports editor for school papers in high school and college. A major turning point came at sixteen, when she first heard and responded to the gospel at a youth event in rural Michigan. She went on to graduate cum laude from Spring Arbor University with a B.A. in social science, and she later married her college sweetheart, Todd. ((https://karenehman.com/about-karen/))

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Don’t say something permanently painful just because you are temporarily ticked off
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Our lives can have more meaning if we stop to notice necessary people
-Listen, Love, Repeat
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Alone doesn’t always mean quiet. Slow your soul down. Really
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Hit your knees BEFORE you hit the phone
-On Hitting Your Knees BEFORE You Hit the Phone
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A half-truth is still a whole lie
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Gratefulness brings contentment and contentment brings peace—peace in knowing all the pieces of our lives string together to make us who we are today
-Thankfulness Changes Lives
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We mirror the gospel when we overlook another’s unpleasant behavior and love them anyway
-Everybody's Got Somethin'
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Let’s stop scurrying and be seated instead
-Scurrying or Seated?
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Wailing and worship can hold hands
-On Wailing and Worship

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