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What You Need to Know about Rose of Sharon + Self-Talk
I read Song of Solomon 2:1 (“I am a rose of Sharon . . .”) and remember pulling hundreds of Rose of Sharon seedlings in the spring. They look like an army of twigs laughing…
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How to Trust God Can Turn Pain Into Purpose
When I finally did find a doctor who would listen to me, she told me I had psuedotumor cerebri and I needed emergency surgery because I was going to be blind in three days.
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Here Is the Secret to a Wise, Fruitful, Overflowing Life
Reverence brings clarity, and when we see God for who He is, everything else begins to fall into place. We don’t self-make ourselves into wise people—who, as Mary Demuth articulates, “speak life . . .…
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It’s a Different Dance Now but the Same Fulcrum of Trust
These days we have a different sort of dance as we transfer from bed to chair. Toe to toe, with my arms under his, I ask him to shift his weight forward. Living counterbalances with…
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Two Powerful Truths That Erase Our Reasons to Fear
Fear is familiar. It’s kept you quiet even when you honestly had something to say. Convinced you to not try, not risk, not show up. Trapped you in your head, in a vicious cycle of…
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How to Be Thankful for the Thorn of Anxiety
When I began to see my situation through the lens of God’s goodness, I saw how He used my struggle with anxiety to peel back layers of self-sufficiency, teaching me to let go of “my…
