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This Is How to Create the Perfect Christmas
But maybe you’re so wrapped up in making Christmas feel right for everyone else, you’ve forgotten you actually don’t have to do anything to make Christmas perfect.
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One Unforgettable Lesson The Amazon Taught Me
Heading into the Amazon, I expected to return with stories of exotic adventures and lives changed—and to some degree I did—but the life most changed was my own. When I arrived home after weeks in…
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10 Simple Tips for Navigating Christmas This Year
God reaches through all of our try-hard and cover-up and flopped attempts to resurrect an idyllic Christmas. Reaches through what’s walled off and numb. And He invites us to pause long enough to see Him.
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How to Be Thankful in Life-Changing Events
Back in 2011, I found myself in a hospital bed with bandages where both hands and both feet had been. A few weeks earlier I was diagnosed with a flesh-eating bacteria (AKA Necrotizing Fasciitis) that…
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This Is What Happens When You Pick a Word of the Year
This is for you if you’ve never picked a word of the year and are genuinely curious what it's all about. It’s also for you if you’ve chosen a word before and didn’t know what…
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How to Prepare Your Heart for Advent With Silent Thanks
Sometimes thanks is silent. Spoken not in words but awe as we inhale God’s overwhelming goodness and weighty glory. The very first line of Psalm 65 stops me: “Oh God in Zion, to you even…
