Category: from the heart
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› Read more: A Redeemer Who Runs
A Redeemer Who Runs
I’ve always loved Isaiah 30. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve studied this chapter, yet the Spirit continually…
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› Read more: Dealing with Disappointments
Dealing with Disappointments
This one is for those who feel a little behind on dreaming and goal-planning for a new year. This one…
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› Read more: What Mary Knew: Lessons in Mothering
What Mary Knew: Lessons in Mothering
If your family is anything like mine, Pentatonix has been crowding your home with the rhetorical question “Mary, did you…
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› Read more: Timely Words as the Year Turns
Timely Words as the Year Turns
As we approach the New Year, we are getting all the emails seeking to neatly wrap up the year: Spotify…
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› Read more: Advent Aches
Advent Aches
The older I get (and the older my boys get), the less Advent equals chocolate treats and the more it…
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› Read more: Cords of Love
Cords of Love
Christ, who led his people with cords of love, breathed through an umbilical cord. Christ, who led his people with…
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› Read more: Of Soup and Soul: Esau and the Danger of Disordered Attachments
Of Soup and Soul: Esau and the Danger of Disordered Attachments
Confession: I have long judged Esau. Hard. I mean, who sells their birthright for a bowl of red lentil soup?…
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› Read more: An Imaginary Interview: Luke & Mary
An Imaginary Interview: Luke & Mary
This Advent, I am beginning a personal study of Luke (which will likely take me all the way through Lent…
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› Read more: To Those Who Feel like They are Going in Circles
To Those Who Feel like They are Going in Circles
I’m not exactly sure what I thought my forties would look like, but I think I had the unspoken, almost…
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› Read more: Spotting and Speaking Beauty
Spotting and Speaking Beauty
In his Nobel lecture, Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes another his fellow Russian writer Dostoevsky who said, “Beauty will save the world.”…