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more4 Things You Really Need to Know about Your Gifts
On Wednesday, April 17 th, 2013Priscilla Shirer has become the most encouraging friend and heart sister and the way this woman wields the Word arrests me every time. If we are going to begin the cataclysmic paradigm shift to “Life is a gift” … begin to count all the gifts – then we realize each of us are gifted and these words that Priscilla has mined are utterly life-giving&...
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moreWhen Life Burns… What We Could Do for Each Other
On Wednesday, April 10 th, 2013When that chimney started on fire, right up the center of the house, right up through center of my bedroom, I heard my Dad holler. Heard the roar, heard that fire roaring just behind the yellow bricks there in my room. That yellow brick road that you could follow straight up to the sky. I cu...
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moreWhat Christians Need to Know about Mental Health
On Monday, April 08 th, 2013Dear Church, Cancer can be deadly and so can depression. So can the dark and the shame and the crush of a thousand skeletons, a thousand millstones, a thousand internal infernos. We could tell you what we know. That — depression is like a room engulfed in flames and you can’t breathe for the soo...
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moreWhat an Easter Monday Faith Looks Like
On Monday, April 01 st, 2013‘Do not abandon yourselves to despair – We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song!’ ~ John Paul II ...
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moreAfter Steubenville: 25 Things Our Sons need to know about Manhood
On Wednesday, March 20 th, 2013Dear Son, When you’re the mother of four sons, Steubenville is about us. Steubenville is about having a conversation with sons about hard things and asking you to do holy things. Because a Steubenville doesn’t begin with football and it doesn’t begin with alcohol and it ...
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moreLetters to the Wounded {#1}
On Friday, March 08 th, 2013And after sharing Letters to the Wound {#2} this week? …. I went back in the archives and pulled out Letters to the Wounded {#1}. D ear Wounded, You were bleeding quiet in my inbox. I read your letter slow, line by line, the way one follows the trail of smearing salty red back to find the gash, to the place where the skin weeps blood. I read your words, the ones about do...
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moreBecause When it’s a Bummer, it might be Perfect
On Tuesday, March 05 th, 2013Wept with this woman. Prayed with this woman. Laughed loud with this woman. Serving alongside Sheila Walsh with Women of Faith, I’ve been changed by the heart of this woman for Jesus. Couldn’t love her more. While I’ll be sharing Letters to the Wounded {#1} later this week, today, Sheila Walsh slips into this quiet corner with words for all the wounded...
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moreLetters to the Wounded {#2}
On Monday, March 04 th, 2013Dear Thriver, You didn’t just survive, so let’s toss that myth right at the outset. I’ve seen you living chin brave through the hurt and how you keep taking one step out of bed and one through the door and how you scale mountains by relentlessly taking steps forward. The way you keep walking? You’re no victim. You’re a Thriver. You may bleed but yo...
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moreHow to Make This Month Amazing {Video}
On Friday, March 01 st, 2013What you know by heart — is what your heart really knows. And the crazy things is, right at the first of the month: what the heart knows by heart is all that can calm a heart. Direct a heart. Strengthen a heart. So I’m thinking: What does a heart know by heart? So March blows in — and this heart here stammers out a recitation of Romans 1...
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moreWhen You are Tired of Worrying
On Thursday, February 28 th, 2013The child at the orphanage, she grabs hold of my Mama’s hand like might she blow away. Like you could be carried straight away into the unknown. And she pulls Mama down, right down to the earth, forces Mama to sit and she starts pulling strands of Mama’s chiffon hair out like she’s white cotton candy in the wind. ...
