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Sep 18

The Story We Tell Ourselves

To ensure we are living accurate narratives, we need people with whom we can be open about the stories we tell ourselves.

Sep 15

Reframing Midlife Marriage

Our crisis revealed itself as an opportunity to evaluate our lives and make significant changes. ... We worked hard for our marriage.

Sep 8

Unlonely

Recently I've started noticing just how very many souls around me express a vacant, hollow loneliness. And not just due to COVID-19.

Sep 1

Untangling the Past

I feared unraveling the threads of my past and exposing myself to the pain and heartache I'd spent much of my life working to overcome.

Aug 25

Facts versus Feelings

Feelings are always real in the sense that they exist. But sometimes they are just feelings, not truth.

Aug 18

God Willing

This year, this pandemic year, has sent my well-wrought plans (and yours too, I'm quite sure) careening off the rails.

Aug 11

For Today

There are days when my heart can't find the momentum to write. Or speak. Or think much really. Like today.

Aug 4

The Only Way Through Is Together

I found myself fighting the urge to withdraw and become invulnerable in the relationship and conversation by pretending and performing.

Jul 28

Grace in Social Media

Learning to show grace in social media is a process, often one of responding more slowly and thoughtfully, and showing restraint.

Jul 21

Let's Talk About Grief

I know we're being brave and showing up and soldiering on. But it's okay to grieve, too. We don't have to pretend we're not sad.

Jul 13

Called: To and From

We are familiar with the call to and we scurry to respond. But a call to Jesus is a from something else.

Jul 7

Finding Our Place

I fretted about going into the party. Part of my hesitancy was rooted in my journey to find confidence as God's beloved.

Jun 30

True Listening

In between all the doing and responding, are we overlooking the one true catalyst of change? Are we taking time to listen to one another?

Jun 23

The God Who Sees

In the midst of the exclusion of not fitting in, it can be easy for me to feel invisible. I find solace and comfort in Hagar's story.

Jun 16

Lessons From My Left Hand

Using my left hand instead of my preferred right feels awkward and unfamiliar. What might I learn from this experience?

Jun 8

Truly Seeing

Colorblind assumes everyone is the same, which is different than treating everyone as equals. We are not the same, we are ethnic beings.

Jun 2

What Next

To my surprise ... relief didn't look like I thought it would. It came when I quit being a slave to shame and forgave myself.

May 26

When I'm In Pain

God has wrapped me in peace while carrying me through seasons of suffering. He has never minimized or dismissed my concerns.

May 18

How to Have Your Deepest Cravings Satisfied by God

When we gather to eat, I believe God wants to feed more than our appetites, he wants to feed our souls.

May 12

God Hears Her

Could we become a team together - cracking open and connecting our hearts so that women listening - would receive what we all long for?

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