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moreHow to Not Miss Your Real Life Calling
On Friday, November 16 th, 2012When they cut the three right open and start pulling out the inner guts, there isn’t a sound in the room. They’re focused and silent and pulling at strings and ripping away at things and I wonder if I am doing any of this ridiculous thing right? Not the pumpkins — I could care less how we hack these three up. It’s the kids, this year, my life. ...
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moreWhy Your Words Matter Most
On Tuesday, January 04 th, 2011On the brink of a new year, we’re thinking about fresh starts and how do we begin again and how your words matter. Whether you write, speak, or want to connect with the hearts of those you love, this year, The Word in your words can change the world. My friend, Holley Gerth and I have been talking and praying about words. How to serve with them and use them well. We’re ...
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moreWhat is Always the First Step, No Matter Where You Are: Where the Best Words Always Come From
On Tuesday, December 07 th, 2010Your words matter. Whether you write, speak, or simply want to connect with the hearts of those you love. My friend, Holley Gerth, and I have been talking and praying about words. How to serve with them. How to use them well. We’re writing our thoughts a series of letters and we’d love for you to be part of the conversation too. Will you join us? We’d love to ...
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moreThe Way to Feed a Hungry Heart:Letters about Serving with Words
On Tuesday, November 30 th, 2010My friend, Holley Gerth, and I have been talking about words and what they mean as we follow the Word made flesh… we invite you, our friends, to a series of letters between friends… Dearest Ann, Thank you for the words you sent my way last week in your first letter—I tucked them away in my heart like pebbles in my pocket. As we traveled the last few days I kept ...
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more2,001
On Friday, November 26 th, 2010A nd when you wake up one morning and realize you’ve scratched out 2,001 posts, you think today might be the day to just curl up quiet… :: But oh, can I just whisper this? That you’d share a bit of the walk with a messy, broken farm girl? Wildest grace… I read your every note and I pray and you mentor and gird and encourage me in a thou...
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moreSix Things Every Christian Blogger Must Really Know
On Tuesday, November 16 th, 2010Know the six things every Christian blogger should know? I’m spilling the beans… er… or whatever nervous farmer’s wives spill… in Part 3 of the closing keynote of The Relevant Blogging Conference… over here at (in)courage today... To catch the final six key elements of b...
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moreWhat is Success? Life in the Upside Down Kingdom (Relevant10 Pt 2)
On Tuesday, November 09 th, 2010What does success look like in the upside down kingdom? What is is success in blogging? in writing? in life? These were questions explored in the closing keynote of Relevant10… what is success? For the the text/audio of Part One of the Closing Keynote of Relevant10 If you’d rather listen, than read the Part 2, click on each link here below, and then...
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Why Blog? : Being an Upside Down Blogger (Part 1)
On Tuesday, November 02 nd, 2010Many of you asked if you could listen to an actual audio recording of the Closing Keynote of Relevant’10, “Blogging in the Upside Down Kingdom”? Ah, but I’m a blogger, just banging it out and often badly, and speaking makes my neck all blotchy and my knees knock crazy and wouldn’t you know, livestreaming apparently had a technical glitch that night...
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A Blogger’s Prayer
On Tuesday, October 26 th, 2010T o do things no one else is doing, we can’t do what everyone else is doing and our greatest triumphs in life are always our most solitary ones. : Every great victory begins on the knees. Upside Down blogging, with Jesus increasing and us decreasing, begins with us bowed in prayer over a keyboard… so we begin in prayer… A Blogger’s ...
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moreBlog Relaunch and Redesign: Welcoming the Light Within
On Thursday, October 21 st, 2010When I pack clothes for a trip, I lay out all black, a dress, a pair of pants, a jacket, my boots, and I even ask it aloud standing over the suitcase, “So what does it mean, when you pack all black?” My Mama comes and she saves me and helps makes the big pots of soups for the six and the Farmer for the days I am gone, helps me win the laundry war to leave the basket...
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when you want the first step in fixing a broken world
On Wednesday, September 15 th, 2010I don’t know really how to come back to this space. What to write about, what to say, what doesn’t sound flippant, indifferent… negligent. When our Compassion team debriefed on our last night in Guatemala, each of us were asked to share the one image we would take home, share one word picture that encapsulated our experience. I couldn’t speak. I had no words. Just this...
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moreWhy the Kids Really Need a Little Red Hen Mama
On Saturday, May 08 th, 2010The grain mill whirs loud, crushing a stream of kernels. I stand in the kitchen by an open sack, grinding the wheat to bake the bread, to break the fasts. Since the beginning, since the dawn, this, the work of women, the feeding of children. The sun rises. And I have to ask it straight out…. Why then do I feed my kids scraps off the floor? ...
