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How To Be During A Transition
Don't be pushed by fear, the dirt piling up at your feet as you struggle against it. Be led by love in the gentle embrace of the holy spirit.
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Finding A Wilderness of Purpose with John the Baptist
He was just as human as we are; prone to question before we trust. Let’s face it, if God called me to live in the desert wilderness eating bugs and wearing scratchy clothes, I might have some doubts too.
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Grocery Store Friends: Cultivate Deeper Relationships
It seems scary and painful to let go of so much you’ve already established in your life for one man they say is God.
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Wear the Nice Shoes: How to find joy in the everyday
I have waited a full year, almost to the day, for my normal life to resume since we all locked our doors hoping to flatten the curve. This year was a struggle between waiting to pick up where we left off under normal circumstances and a dawning realization that time does not stop. For many people the passage of these…
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Fear in friendship: Finding my worth in Jesus
The three of us sat crowded around a small table in the swarming university cafeteria, grateful we even found a table. As the two other girls at the table talked rapid-fire back and forth, my eyes turned into two ping pong balls bouncing between them, just trying to keep up. In a broad sense of the word, we were friends.…
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Stepping out scared
“That’s a big risk.” “I’m taking a calculated risk.” “No risk, no reward.” “I might not be successful, but I’m going to try it anyway.” Some might call these phrases famous last words. We’re always taught to take the step or do the ‘thing’ with the least amount of risk possible growing up. But as children, what did we do…
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When Fear Floods Our Hearts
At a time when we’re already sheltering in place, trying to stay six feet away from the only other person on the same aisle of the grocery store, and using zoom to conference call our friends, we don’t need to make ourselves even more isolated.