Looking around the living room floor of my mind I am surrounded. There is stuff everywhere. Garbage mixed with forgotten gifts. Old, dirty laundry next to that special thing I had forgotten about. Clean, perfectly functional things that are covered in the cobwebs of neglect. When we’re cleaning something out things often look worse before
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Faith
It’s Time to Dig In and Dig Out
I’ve deleted and retyped portions of this post over and over. It still feels scary, but I’m publishing anyway. This is not a cry for ego stroking or a pity party. This is real, and I hope you can be real too. I’m really good at going through my day, my week, my life happy.
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Faith
Why Your Heart Needs a Good Spring Cleaning
Embarking on a Spring Cleaning for Your Heart tends to leave people at the ends of two extremes. I don’t need that. My heart is fine. OR My heart is a mess. I don’t know where to start. Either way, I will assure you of two things. We all have work to do, and with God’s help we can
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Faith
Spring Cleaning for Your Heart
As we get ready to turn the seasonal calendar page we are filled with new things to do. It’s spring after all and that means it’s time to throw open the windows, get out the deep cleaning tools and the elbow grease. There’s one spot forgotten on our spring cleaning checklists, and it happens to
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Learning
5 Things I Learned This Winter
Each season I take a little time to think about some of the things I’ve learned. They may be small. They may be life altering. No matter the size they help me become the best version of myself.
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Identity
Are You Following a Bootstrap Gospel?
I follow a writer online. Her name doesn’t really matter because there are quite a few people online with a similar message: YOU CAN DO IT! Do you know anyone like that? I’m going to call her X in this post, for ease and so that there really isn’t any hint as to who she
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Identity
Can My Calling Really Be That Simple?
Ok, I know the other day when I wrote about your calling I said, the end. But the truth is it just doesn’t always seem that easy, does it? Four words made it sound so simple, but here we are, everyday, struggling to understand what it means. I get it. So what do we do? I’m going
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Faith
How Losing Church Brought Me Closer to God
In the days of youth group and young adulthood, church was a place full of life and experiences. I went there to encounter God, and most of the time I did. It felt good and normal and expected, until it didn’t. Fast forward a few years and I found myself home with two toddlers, a growing belly
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Identity
Your Calling (in 4 Words)
Have you ever wondered if you’re where you’re supposed to be? I don’t mean at the right address (although I’ve been in that position plenty of times). I mean in life, in the grand, sweeping sense of purpose and direction and calling. Are my feet (and my heart) where they belong? The question rings loud
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Identity
A Love Letter to My Body
This letter to my body was my birthday present to myself. Inspired by a post by Sarah Bessey, I am choosing to be grateful for this body that I have right now in this moment. It may feel imperfect to me and may even have some medical issues to work through, but it is a wonderful body.