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How to Navigate the Good and Beautiful Mess of Missional Living
It’s gritty and full of apology and learning to meet in the middle, this together-way-of-life. It’s learning to talk it out face-to-face and not behind backs. It’s being honest when we need a break or…
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How to Make Those Serving You Feel Seen
In the twenty years since that reminder to meet the eye and thank those who serve me, I’ve had awkward moments. But the way people’s faces change when someone recognizes and thanks them for their…
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What Peace Is Like in Our Honest, Everyday Lives
Maybe peace is what I’m seeking out here where sun rises over a steeple and fog rests airy on pastures and fences run parallel.
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To the Person With a Plan: Maybe God’s Is Better
As I continued to mourn my mom’s death, I also mourned the death of a dream I had carried since my own childhood. I felt drenched in sadness. This had never been the plan.
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What To Do When We Can’t Go Back to How It Was
What if the multi-faceted masterpiece of your God-given strengths and life experiences helps you reflect Jesus in a way that literally no one else can?
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How to Grow Contentment That Makes You Forget Losses
Everything in me wants to scream, “Why can’t we just be like normal families that get to go on vacations?” Yet, to do so would expose a part of my heart that I’m not so…
