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Social Media and Lent
On this Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, I feel burdened and weary from the chaotic state of the world and I know that I’m not alone. I would like to encourage you to let this burdened feeling propel you towards God. As Ash Wednesday approaches, I’d like to invite you to join me on a Lenten…
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Reframing Election Day
Today is Election Day in the US and I want to offer Christians a challenge to view this day within the framework of God’s ongoing work of Creation. This perspective has brought life to me as I’ve navigated grief and I believe it can bring life to all of us as we play our part…
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The Power Of Lament
Writing has been a healing practice for me and a way to process the pain over my son’s death in June. Until this time, I have only written as a private exercise to acknowledge and express what I’m thinking and feeling. I feel that since this summer, I have been experiencing perpetual lament. Now…
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Pay Attention to Your Tears
Have you been surprised by your tears while watching a movie, listening to music or attending a worship service? At a certain moment, something deep inside you connects to something you see or hear and triggers a response. Longing or desires within us bubble up unbidden and we wonder where they came from. When we…
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God’s Powerful Presence
Our first Lenten post spoke about our desire for our readers to have a more wondrous view of God, a view that is overwhelmed by His magnificence so that you yearn to be in relationship with Him in a deep and meaningful way. God longs to be in relationship with us, to complete us in…
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God’s Patience
I’m praying that my young adult children will have a growing capacity for the Lord as they navigate life’s twists and turns upon this earth. I pray that this capacity will be nurtured by an awareness that they were made to be completed by something this present world can’t fully provide. This awareness can be…
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The Wisdom of God
Our stories are part of God’s good story, the narrative of His people. And it is a story where we are invited to know the Author of the story, the One whose good revelations, God’s wisdom, we can trust! In His wisdom, God created you, He created me. Who else could ever be wise enough…
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The Goodness of God
This week I did something that I have always wanted to do. I was an extra on a movie set. My next door neighbor is involved in casting, and she recruited volunteers through our neighborhood group chat. The filming involved being available for the better part of a day, but I was able to switch…
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The Steadfastness of God
Our last post spoke to inviting God’s judgment into our lives, as He only desires good for us, and therefore, we can trust His revelations to us. What a welcome 180 degree turn from understanding God’s judgment as condemnation and judging others as well as ourselves through that lens, to our detriment. God desires for…
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New Year’s Resolutions and Judgment
Ahhh, the beginning of a new year. A time to reset and take stock. I always have enjoyed the feeling of a clean slate that the new year brings. However, in my online reading, I’ve encountered more resistance this year towards making new year’s resolutions than I’ve seen before. As I’ve thought about this, I recognized…
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