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Meander through these honest stories of grief/loss, anger, hope, and transformation. Maybe you'll see your reflection and hope will appear where you hadn't noticed her before.
This girl went on a retreat, and you WOULD NOT believe what happened next!?!?
That click-bait title totally got you, right? Experimenting, I think I've #nailedit. So anyways... Eleven years ago I needed to get away. Get away from the noise, from busyness of life, from opinions, and everyday clamor that left me feeling overwhelmed and losing my...
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Thoughts On Learning to To Love Your Postpartum Body
If swearing offends you, please considering skipping this post. I realize it is not classy, but sometimes it just has to be. Because sometimes coming against injustice and stereotypes requires fight mingled with...
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Proverbs 31: A Modern Parody
10 A satisfied woman, who can find? She has far too many pinterest ideas than life's timetable affords her to complete. 11 The heart of her husband wonders what she may think up next, he will have no lack of new ideas from her. 12 She begins many good projects in...
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Sexual Assault: How Understanding Myself As A Victim Released Me From Living As One
I don’t think all stories need to be told publicly. First, mine needed to be told in a therapist’s office. Lying on the couch in my living room. Crying with my husband. Fighting into my pillow. Breaking glass on a country road. But now 8 years after I finally shared...
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Noticing Transformational Moments: Part 2
The earth here is in the transformation of long-awaited spring. The sprouting of flowering bulbs in our front yard, and the early garlic, chives, and rhubarb already sprouting in the garden. It’s early for us here in the Midwest this year, but so very welcome. The...
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Noticing Transformational Moments: Part 1
Deep, soulful transformation that actually changes your life is not elusive or magical. It is work, don’t get me wrong. But it is also simple and right in front of you. With the soul, there are no formulas, but there are ways to drink from the well of transformation...
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Our Son Would Turn 5 Years Old Today
Five years ago I gave birth to a baby boy but the only cries in that delivery room were from those of us grieving his silence. He was stillborn in my sixth month due to a severe case of Amniotic Band Syndrome. Almost 3 kids later, his death, at times, can feel like a...
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Self-Care in an age of Self-Indulgence
I have an unpopular confession: Secretly...I have writhed against the whole self-care movement, as I am calling it. Unfortunately, I have not heard many convincing, gospel-centered frameworks for self-care. It can become so self-centered, so…self-indulgent. It seems...
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Popular Articles
- Evangelism, Meet Soul Care. Christianity Today
- The Welcome of What Is. The Mudroom
- Finding Balance In Limitations. The Redbud Post
- These Three Remain. (a poem) The Redbud Post
- How to Ask Someone to Leave Your Small Group. Smallgroups.com
- Study Guide for Mystics & Misfits: Meeting God Through St. Francis and Other Unlikely Saints. Herald Press
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