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When you fail, you succeed
I recently went through some old messages I wrote years ago. They were so bad. Isn’t it funny how looking back can be both good and hard? Maybe God is calling you to do something that feels big. You have a learning curve and that’s scary. You KNOW you’ll fail in one...
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When a crisis tries to knock you down
When a crisis hits, it can knock us down. We don’t know what to expect. Our “normal” has been stripped away. But if we look back at any crisis, somehow good can come from it. I don’t know about you, but that’s been my prayer lately. Lord, show me...
When reaching for the silver lining isn’t the best move
I’m a half-cup full girl. I almost always (like every single time) reach for the silver lining. There’s so much good in that, but the downside to eternal optimism is that sometimes a person just needs space to say she’s sad. She needs to...
Borrowed strength
When I ask friends how they are doing during the pandemic, the answers are all over the board. Some are doing fine. Others are struggling. Some have lost so much. How are you, friend, as you read this today? How are you holding up? I truly want to...
You are never, ever alone. . . (a story I’ve held onto until now)
One day I sat in the CCU near Richard’s bed. The machines whirring. Fluid from his chest going into a large glass container near his bed. I was exhausted. Earlier that week I found out I had cancer again. Three days later he had a massive...
What love isn’t
Hey friend, can we talk? Just you and me, sitting across from each other. Our hot steaming cups between us. Jesus asked us to love one another. In fact, he took it a step further. He asked us to love each other the way he loved us. In a faith that...
When you have your cranky pants on
In today’s More Than Small Talk podcast, we discuss how hard it is to disagree with someone we like. Yet there are times the person we are disagreeing with is. . . ourselves. This is an old entry from one of my prayer journals. This is what I...