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When You Can No Longer Hear
Comments and updates and blogs fill my inbox and my screen and my head. It’s like an all you can eat smorgasbord of rich information that I keep coming back to, and it’s all good and wonderful and...
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On Deception And Real Freedom
I’m always a bit uncomfortable writing about sin. Nobody particularly likes that word, and while I am an expert in the practice of it, I worry that I will be accused of being “holier than thou”, which...
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Wrapping Words Around Refine
People keep asking, how was the retreat? You all want to know about Refine. I both want to tell you–and yet I don’t. Or maybe it’s more that I can’t? (It’s all still unfolding). I’ve been struggling...
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God Answered
Nearly 3 years ago I prayed for a specific opportunity. It felt a bit like a selfish prayer, I’m certain that my motives were somewhat mixed when I petitioned God for this. I know this, because I...
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Discovering Who Your Neighbors Are
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I...
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Get To Work (How To Beat Envy)
The crocus sprung up this past weekend while I was away. When I’d packed up the car Thursday morning I’d seen their tips peeking up, all green with promise. Sunday morning when I returned, in my rush...
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On Making Space
Standing at the sink in the pre-dawn light this morning I caught myself staring at the mulched patch in the back of the yard–all that remains of the old Ash we had chopped down last year. It had stood...
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Hold The Door {My Declare Conference Podcast}
Several months ago, the beautiful women behind the Declare conference reached out to me, and invited to serve as the keynote speaker at their conference this summer. The invitation came as a complete...
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Same Old Story
A couple of weeks ago, I held a microphone in my hand and told my messy-pride story to 150 of the most gracious women, who laughed at all the right moments, and caught their breath with me when I...
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When God Invites You
“We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.” ~Madeline L’Engle It’s been 4 weeks since I stood up in front of the women at Declare and...
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On Bringing A Different Way
This Advent, as I wait for Jesus’ coming, I’ve been thinking about what it means to live out the gospel call to love my neighbors, my family members, and strangers alike, in a way that demonstrates...
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Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust
In her book, Teach Us To Want, Jen Pollock Michel wrote, It sounds terrifically cliché, but I don’t suppose any of us decides our come- to-Jesus moment. We don’t get to plan our Damascus road...
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On Baptism And Heading To Refine Retreat
The chief biblical analogy for baptism is not the water that washes but the flood that drowns. ~William Willamon This week I will gather with 40 women for the 2nd Refine {the retreat}. If you’d told...
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Reflections On Refine {the retreat}
The climb up the slick black driveway to the crest of the hill works to draw the anxiety out. By the time the house comes into view, already, I feel lighter, my heartbeat slows with the hope and joy of...
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Writing As An Act Of Worship
Writing As An Act Of Worship The other day I spoke with my friend Kate about sharing my experience of self-publishing with you, and she asked me what worked well, and what was perhaps harder than I...
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Whither Shall I Follow
Follow Him simply wherever He may lead you and you will not have to think up big plans to bring about your perfection. Your new life will begin to grow naturally. I know you want to see the road ahead...
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