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Step into the Light: a Story of Healing after Sexual Assault

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On Hearing Christ, Not Chaos and Conspiracies

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Fully Loved and Always Invited by God

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Prayer in the Era of Self-Help

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How to Pray When Healing Doesn’t Come

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Fully Loved and Always Invited by God

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and Learned From

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To Be Known and Called Friend

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A Beautiful Scar to Remind Me
of My Daughterhood

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Fully Loved and Always Invited by God

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Choosing to Make It Through Another Day

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The Flowers Fight for Us

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Step into the Light: a Story of Healing after Sexual Assault

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When We Listen, We Hear God

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You Can Do Hard Things

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When It’s All Too Much

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Staying on the Hard Road

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The Faithfulness of God in the Midst of Bitter Loss

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I remember the moment like it was yesterday. I got a call late in the evening that my oldest sister had passed away from heart failure. While her death and the events of that evening were swift, they felt like an eternity. It was the hardest news I’d been given since receiving a similar phone call about my father who passed away when I was nineteen years old. Loss of life is sobering. I hate it, and I know that it’s not what God originally intended for humanity. I also know that God loves us deeply and purely, and one day He will make all things new. The loss of my sister that I experienced ...

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How Do We Measure the Immeasurable?

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I count the white, wiry hairs poking from the part in my scalp. There are too many. I give up and measure the length from root to where the color changes. These markers are comforting to me right now. I’ve never been a numbers person, but lately, I cling to what feels measurable. I stare at graphs, trying to grasp the invisible movement of a global pandemic. I print and cut out guides for measuring my kids’ ever-growing feet. I check the ratio of water to rice in our rice cooker, making sure ...

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An Easy Way to Make the World Better Right Now

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Ours is a weighty world right now, isn’t it? Where are the carefree days of summer, a mid-year break from responsibility, work, and maybe even most of your worries? Even if you’re able to get away for a few days, it’s impossible to escape the gravity of pandemic and politics and protests. Is there any way to make the world around us a bit brighter? When I wasn’t even thinking about it, I found an answer. Actually, it was a simple reminder that showed up in the most unexpected of places — on a ...

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Step into the Light: a Story of Healing after Sexual Assault

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*TRIGGER WARNING: The post you are about to read deals with sexual assault and abuse. There is no graphic language used, but the subject matter is sensitive in nature. It was in a coffee shop on an April evening when I realized for the first time I’d been sexually assaulted. It had been three months since the assault, and three months and two days since I’d broken up with my boyfriend. I had gone to a Starbucks, armed with my laptop, planning to write the pain out of me. I thought if I ...

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