And that’s when I heard it, “Hold space for them.” “Hold space for them? What does that mean?” I asked God. I sat there in my car in the parking lot of the addiction rehab I taught at and knew God was calling me to embark on a journey with these women. As I hung […]
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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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My husband murmured a few days ago, “It’s been a rough year. I’m ready for 2018 to be over.” It’s true it’s been one crazy year filled with heartache, brokenness, and weariness, but not hopelessness. Not once did I feel hopeless. The truth is we aren’t hopeless when we fully understand why Jesus came, died,
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Several years ago, I served on our church prayer team. Every Sunday I had the privilege of praying for and alongside women for physical and emotional healing or about marriage restoration, job loss, family strife, prodigal sons and daughters, barrenness, and plain discouragement. One Sunday, an amazing thing happened. A woman came to the altar
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Every morning I drive pass cotton fields on the way to dropping the kids off at school. God speaks clearly through these fields. It’s funny how seasons change. It uses to be the beach, and now it’s a cotton field. The road slightly bends and curves around, like a curtain drawing back God relieves the
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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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