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Humble Pie, Coming Right Up
Y’all know the heaving sobs. The kind that take over your body because the pain is so great. The error so grave. The betrayal so palpable. They rock you and...
Don't Be Afraid to Share Your Struggle
“You will be given at that moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you." (Matthew...
Found, But Never Lost
Growing up, I would often hear the same few stories from my parents. They were the go-to stories. You know the ones. The stories that are brought out and dusted...
Things Mother Teresa Never Actually Said
There is a widely quoted Saint Teresa of Calcutta saying that goes, “If you want to bring peace to the whole world, go home and love your family.” It’s a...
What's Your Revolution?
Much ink has been spilled this year over "the Benedict Option," Rod Dreher's sweeping cultural assessment adjuring Christians to create and invest in life-giving physical communities and to dig down...
Scraped Knees and Broken Hearts
For many years I was the queen of diminish and dismiss. My friends lauded me for my ability to forgive and continue in relationships with people who had hurt me....
We Go in Many Directions and He Is With Us
Yesterday, I sat on my porch singing into my phone as a dear friend sat on her couch strumming her guitar and leading me in worship. She offered this missionary...
Pretend Our Way into Being Someone Else
With our modern eyes it can be so easy to see the story of Jacob and Esau and think it somehow pedestrian and almost silly in how easily Issac can...
Calling All the Sinners
If you ever have the privilege to wander around Rome, you will undoubtedly stumble across a Caravaggio. The city is littered with paintings by the Baroque master. His use of...
Sometimes I'm the Paralytic
I am often paralyzed by my sin. I am very good at hiding it with my busy-ness. I couldn’t possibly be paralyzed if I am working all these jobs and...
Beauty from Messes
Sarah was old and had always been barren so, according to the customs of the time, she told her husband to take her slave as a concubine, that he may...
Falling into the Storm
Why am I terrified, Lord? Because I don’t know the way from here to the ending. I don’t know what fills the pages of my life between the mess of...
