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Authentic You: When You Are Afraid of Being Unliked {day 16}
Okay, confession. That blog post I wrote yesterday was more a prayer for myself than a proclamation. The last part, where I wrote, “Look out and up at God and step boldly into openness”? Yeah. I’m not...
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When You Forget to Practice What You’ve Preached
Two weeks ago I arrived at the Carol Joy Holling Center for a women’s retreat. I was the keynote speaker slated for a two-hour session on Saturday evening. I’d prepared weeks for my talk, had my Bible...
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What You Learn about God When You Leap
“It shouldn’t be hagiography,” I heard him say on the other end of the line, and I nodded, replying, “Oh right, of course. Yeah, that totally makes sense.” That’s what I said to my brand-new editor...
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What To Do When God Tells You to Trust
I laid awake under the light blanket, the sharp scent of marsh and salt and sea wafting through the open window. The house slept, blinds whirring in the light breeze like a buzzing bee, shadows from...
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What My Nudie Kid Taught Me about Surrender and Trust
I wrote my memoir Spiritual Misfit over a period of two years when my kids were quite young. It was a time in which my spiritual life and my faith grew exponentially, and much of what I learned God...
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The Bittersweet Truth of Palm Sunday
After church on Sunday Rowan asked me if Palm Sunday was a happy day or a sad day. I understand his confusion. I sort of feel the same way. On one hand, there’s a feeling of celebration and joy in the...
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Learning to Let Go of Outcomes
I’ve been praying a new prayer lately. It goes like this: “God, help me be small. Help me embrace the small. Help me love and live the small. Amen.” This is a big deal for me, because I am not...
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God Doesn’t Promise Bad Things Won’t Happen
Public speaking is not my favorite part of my job, namely because I am afraid of it. Thus, I typically prepare for an event weeks in advance, writing out my talk, practicing it out loud multiple times...
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Weekend One Word: Wholehearted
I’ve been thinking about this verse a lot lately, wondering what it looks like to have “a different spirit” and to follow God “wholeheartedly.” I love the idea, but I suspect I haven’t quite gotten...
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When God Says Stay
Not long ago I had dinner with two friends who are both writers and bloggers. We had a great time together that night, chatting and laughing over our soup and salad and bread sticks. At the same time,...
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