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Going back into community and why that might feel hard
I drove across town to meet with a group of women -- something I hadn’t done in a year and a half. It felt new. It felt odd. It felt good. We talked. We prayed. We got to know each other. I left that meeting with a conformation of something I’ve always known. We need each...
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When your heart is bummed out, burned out
I felt as if I couldn’t get enough rest. My mind was in overdrive pretty much all day and night. Things felt heavy. Yet as I looked at my own life I couldn’t put my finger on why. I’m an optimist. I was cancer free after a year of surgeries. My...
Will I ever be ready to dream again, post-pandemic?
God whispered that dream over your heart and you were ready, right then. Then that thing happened. A pandemic. An illness. An unexpected loss. That struggle in your closest relationship. So you ask God, “Lord, did I really hear you? Were you...
Is that a wall you’ve built or a healthy pause?
If you were to ask the people in my life way back when, they would have said I was a pretty good friend. They also would have said that I was surrounded by a lot of people, and some of those were close. Yet I know the real truth. While I loved the...
Hey friend, I hear you are deconstructing your faith
A growing number of you are sharing that you are deconstructing your faith. For some of you, that’s not where you are, but it’s where a loved one is and it feels scary because you fear they are abandoning their faith. I think this is worth talking...
Vibrant, faith-filled, and dealing with mental health issues
I can count on two hands people that I love who have been diagnosed with mental health issues. I can’t count how creative, how loving, how instrumental, how necessary these people are because the list is too long. When I was diagnosed with breast...
It’s not her fault
Sisters, can I just be honest with you? One of the most damaging things we can do to another woman is to imply that it’s somehow her fault when someone takes advantage (or tries to take advantage) of her. In today’s episode of More Than Small Talk...