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The Critical Importance of Facing Your Trauma
Joan, a Bainbridge Island firefighter, was in my house with a group of our neighbors, telling us how to prepare for the earthquake that will inevitably hit our island. Apparently our neighborhood...
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Digging Behind “Never Enough”
I wish you could meet Harlie. She knows what’s up. I met her over a decade ago at the bakery next door to my church in downtown Atlanta. I’d go there five days a week and order coffee. You want to get...
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Embracing the Gift of Sleep
In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat — for He grants sleep to those He loves. — Psalm 127:2 Perhaps you’ve never thought of sleep as a gift from God. But it is. Sleep is a...
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Y’all Should Read the Bible. It’s Good Stuff.
Let me tell you about one of my life’s little grenades that exploded because I wasn’t checking in with myself. Have you ever had someone do you dirty? (We all nod yes because duh.) But I mean, like,...
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Worry
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. ~ Corrie ten Boom When our daughter, Jenni, was pregnant with her fourth child, she and her husband, Andy, had three...
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Hoping in Our Sovereign God
Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. The king loved Esther more than all the other women, and...
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Unclutter Your Soul and Overcome!
What Is Your Soul Telling You? I love a good movie soundtrack. They can bring feelings of melancholy and pain; hope and joy. I feel other-ly and myself all at the same time. I feel possibility,...
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Rely on Prayer
We constantly pray for you. — 2 Thessalonians 1:11 When Jesus was preparing to face the cross, He prayed. He told His disciples to pray too. My heart is full of sorrow, to the point of death, He said....
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Go Through to Get Out
There is no way out of one’s inner life, so one had better get into it. On the inward and downward spiritual journey, the only way out is through. ~Parker J. Palmer1 Have you ever read the beloved...
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Dig In
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. ~ Richard Moss Having written this book before COVID-19, I want to hug you, to pull you near and tell you that brighter days are...
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