Last night at 9:30pm I sat in the emergency vet and cried. Our dog had eaten seven pieces of gum and my initial internet search told me it could be lethal. So I found myself driving over, trying to contain my tears, and then waiting, trying to contain my tears. Until finally they told me […]
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I’ve never written a love letter before. Sure, I say, “I love you” all the time to my husband, my kids, and my dog. But not a whole letter. In high school, I received a few love letters and 11 years ago my (then) soon-to-be husband wrote me an email stating what he loved about
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“It’s odd when everyone is talking about, ‘Trust your leaders,’” she said. “It’s the kind of thing I’ve heard all my life, so I know exactly where they’re coming from. But now it doesn’t work like that.” – A statement from a college student who had attended Oakwood Baptist Church I don’t remember the first time I felt
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“We’ve domesticated despair and learned to live with it.” – Flannery O’Conner The other day I met with a friend. As we chatted over lunch, she asked me, “How are you doing these days?” I knew my face was lighting up as I shared with her that I am in a season of life where
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Today I want to talk to women like me—and the men who care about them. It’s a subject that no one wants to talk about and yet everyone—in one way or another—is impacted by. Victim, perpetrator, on-looker, silencer, supporter… Sexual violence. #metoo. #churchtoo. When I was in the 7thgrade I experienced sexual violence. At the
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It has been 19 years since I first trusted in Jesus. As I sat in that Nazarene church plant trying to figure out what life was about, I wept with the realization that I had finally found what I was looking for. Until that time, I had been grasping for the wind, everything always seeming
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“It was cultural.” That was the response I got from two different people not too long ago when I expressed my disturbance over the fact that Mary is thought to have been just a young teenager when the angel came to her, bearing “good news of great joy” that she would have a baby. This
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Twenty-some years ago when I was a new Christian, a few passages really captured my imagination. These I would read over and over and commit them to heart as though my very life depended on them. One of these was the story of the lame beggar we read about in Acts 3. Here’s verses 1-10:
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Years ago, I read a quote by poet Maya Angelou that has stayed with me: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” None of us was meant to bear the burdens of life alone. No matter if we think we are independent or not, the reality is that we need
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For as long as I can remember, I have wrestled with feeling on the outside of things. When I changed schools in 4thgrade, I felt like an outsider for weeks. In 8thgrade, my school handed out something called the “Sister Mary Catherine” award to the student the teachers recognized as the kindest student. I was
