I tread lightly with this topic, writing each word with care, like holding a porcelain vase–easily broken if not handled carefully and tenderly. I write because I know men and women sit in church pews or at home feeling alone in their hurt. We all long to learn how to overcome and heal from church […]
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For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not. I am the one who helps you.” –Isaiah 41:13 (ESV) I don’t want to. I have to, I know. In all my best efforts, I attempt to ease my son’s hurt if only I
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I didn’t expect grief to show up today. My father passed away about three months ago. I spent most of the first few weeks crying off and on. The weight of his death seemed almost too much to bear. I’m new to this grief thing. I’ve lost grandparents to death, friends to unlikely circumstances, communities
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“Find your own rhythm,” we’re told. But in a world full of comparison, how is that done—especially with a million messages bombarding us each day? “Strive for greatness!” “Nothing is impossible!” “Ten steps to success!” “Three keys to a wonderful marriage and family!” “Follow me, and I’ll give you all the answers!” It’s exhausting. Instead
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I’m bowed over the sink washing the last of the dishes with tears in my eyes. Doors slammed. I don’t know how it suddenly got so loud, and we both lost it. Our arguing, it can go in circles. Seemed more frequent. And I’m thinking, as I washed the last pot, there’s got to be
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Teen years can be grueling. We’ve heard it in sermons and podcasts. Read it in books and even spoken it to each other, yet we still don’t believe in the middle of the mess. Our mess. Our teens’ mess. God will make something beautiful. Because if we’re real honest, it’s always easier to believe someone
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“To accept the dark nights is to accept being human…It is to accept being who I am. This is holiness.” Maria Edwards On this journey of life, there are unexpected bends in the road, and sometimes mountains we never thought we have to overcome, and it’s scary and downright overwhelming. You feel alone; you feel
If you lean in close, you can hear it, the wrestling of restless women wanting more than religion. They want to know a real God who meets their real needs right in the middle of their real lives. Some are wounded from the church and wondering if they’ll ever go back. Some are conflicted and
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“Hold space for them.” These words dropped in my spirit last February after teaching at the women’s drug rehab for the first time. I had accepted an invitation to teach a Bible study once a week and had been begging the Lord to reveal wisdom on what to share with them. Leading up to the
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One Saturday, eight years ago, I sat in our screened in porch of our three- bedroom ranch, questioning my faith, for the first time. “Is this whole Christian thing working for me?” I was thirty-one years old. I had been a Christian since I was a teenager, and I believed the Bible, but was it
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