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How God Uses You, Even When You Don’t Feel {Thin, Organized, Talented,...
I’m not a big dreamer. As a child, the visions of adulthood that reeled through my mind looked much like a 1950’s TV show – predictable, comfortable, and safe. Risk repulsed me and restrained me from...
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Should Parents Force Kids’ Quiet Times? {Thoughts on Grace vs. Law} +...
I understand the tension. Christian parents love the idea of their kids spending time alone with Jesus… but they want it to come from the heart. “If I force the issue, will my children associate God...
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First Mother
Keeping it easy this 4th of July week with a repost from 2012. This came from the bottom of my heart, about the struggle knowing your child came from someone else’s womb. When Caroline laughs deeply,...
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How Does Perfect Love Cast Out Fear? {What We Love, We Fear to Lose}
The first time I was held at gunpoint, in a parking lot as a college student, I knew everything would be okay. The second time – years later – I fell to my knees, screaming and pleading in my own...
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Coming Home
We’re laying on the beach eating cherries when she tells me her heart for God has all but gone cold. She never opens her Bible anymore, rarely enjoys church, hardly feels a responsiveness in her soul...
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Becoming {When You Aren’t Yet Who Christ Made You to Be}
Today when I was rocking Owen to sleep, I found a new freckle on his chubby toddler knuckle. I’d found treasure. There is something deeply intimate about noticing the arrival of seemingly...
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How the Hurting Can Celebrate Christmas
’Tis the season to ache. At church on Sunday, a single guitarist stood on stage as my friend Christine sang a hauntingly beautiful version of “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.” I blinked away tears at the...
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Waiting Wednesdays
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For those of you who are waiting: “Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace,the cherisher of love, the teacher of humility; Patience governs the flesh,strengthens the spirit, sweetens...
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For those of you who are waiting: “Seek refuge under the wings of God, even when they seem to cast only shadows, and at just the right time God will let you look out from his Eagle’s nest onto some...
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