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When You Tell God You
Don’t Want To Live Anymore

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Why My Unanswered Prayers
Convinced Me To Pray

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Five Truths to Ease the Changing Season of Friendships

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Keep Walking Even When You Can’t See What’s Next

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Learning Not to Judge But to Hear
My Neighbor’s Story

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Five Truths to Ease the Changing Season of Friendships

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Summer Hospitality Bucket List

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How to Walk Through Our Circumstances

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How to Pray When Healing Doesn’t Come

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How to Pray When It’s Hard to Hear God

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What Does Your Mirror Tell You?

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Stop Apologizing for Who You Are

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When You Tell God You
Don’t Want To Live Anymore

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Learning Not to Judge But to Hear
My Neighbor’s Story

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The Four Words That Will Free You
From Needing Their Approval

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Because Time Belongs to God

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When Your Slip Is Showing

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Today's Post

Let’s Be the Ones Who Show Up in the Pain

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My dad’s high school yearbook told the story of a popular teen with the world at his fingertips — track star, editor of the school paper, class council president. Countless black and white photos of a handsome young man surrounded by smiling peers in matching horn-rimmed glasses. An athlete and academic full of promise and potential. But that’s not the story I knew. Nor the one reflected at his memorial the day we gathered to mourn my father. Had someone asked my dad’s friends back then what Ralph’s funeral would someday be like, I’m sure they would have described an auditorium packed ...

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When Nothing Is Left But Love

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I was in my early thirties, established in my career and comfortable in my skin, but I was still nervous when the time came to meet my future mother-in-law. Would she like me as a person, approve of me as a daughter-in-law, accept me into the family, even with my bad-girl past? Our first meeting was cordial, and she always made me welcome in her home. But as each year went by, I became less certain of my place in her heart and held her at arm’s length emotionally. Yes, I dutifully sent flowers ...

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When God Transplants You

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I grew up in Chicago in a neighborhood where the houses were like little boxes made of brick sitting in neat rows along the city streets. Even though we had a small backyard, my mama always made space for a garden. Every spring we would head down to the local nursery and pick out packets of seeds and plants. We dreamed of making Italian pesto and marinara sauce with our herbs and tomatoes. We salivated over eggplant parmigiana or moist zucchini bread we could create. Of course, we had work to ...

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How to Fight the Lies of Perfectionism

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I used to tell myself, “I have to stop being a perfectionist!” Can anyone else hear the irony of those words? One of the biggest traps I often fall into is the notion that I can get rid of perfectionism. If only I had more confidence in myself . . . If only I could let go of the past . . . If only I trusted God more . . . If only . . . All this if only talk doesn't help me. I criticize myself, spiraling into feeling frozen and discouraged, whenever I feel inspired to try something ...

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