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Continue reading →: How to love getting old.For the first time in thirty something years, I have been breaking out. If I’m being honest, by this point in life I thought I had escaped unscathed, never having passed through the acne teenage years, and forsake never thinking my time would come in adulthood. I’m also officially in…
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Continue reading →: Faith that celebrates.“‘Oh, no,’ said Dr. Dorian. ‘I don’t understand it. But for that matter I don’t understand how a spider learned to spin a web in the first place. When the words appeared, everyone said they were a miracle. But nobody pointed out that the web itself is a miracle.’” -E.B.…
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Continue reading →: Its January and the pumpkin patches are still rotting.It’s January and the pumpkin patches are still rotting, adding to the difficulty of figuring out what season we are actually living in these days in northeast Ohio. The trees are bare, save some straggling leaves still in denial they’re dead, holding on until something breaks their grasp for them. There’s…
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Continue reading →: Building content + an online presence and the journey to contentment + being presentI’m blue. It’s what I tell him when I’m cupping sorrow, known or unknown. The black clouds hovering a little lower, the clouds full of moisture, and there is just no more room to hold anything. Ironically, the feeling is hollow. Vacant. When we first got married, I might have…
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Continue reading →: A state of hope.When I was at a worship night a couple years ago, one of the speakers came off the stage for spontaneous prayer, speaking and praying over me to be faithful in this season and reminded me that the Father is slow to anger- compassionate on the season with the littles…
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Continue reading →: When we don’t want to be a part of the family of God.“No matter how hard I try, no matter how fluently and magnificently I could ever answer their questions and no matter how much effort I make to show up to every gathering, I don’t think I will ever fit in or be enough.” They thought they were just coming for…
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Continue reading →: Messy new traditions.I couldn’t get the first day of passover right this year to save my life. I mean truly, if I were one of those Israelites or the Lord’s salvation depended on my participation on the very date, I would be good as dead. I’ve wanted to partake in a biblical…
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Continue reading →: deeper love stillI’ve been doubting God’s love for me. It all started at a worship night about a month ago. After receiving prayer over ministries turning into prayer over my sight, I walked back to my seat, redirecting my thoughts and attention back to worship. As the music played, in my head…
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Continue reading →: Here is your anointing oil.A friend asked how she could be praying for me this week, and my response perfectly incapsulates the season I’m in, as I imagine myself tucked in fetal position at the bottom of a door as glass plates shatter around me. Is it safe to say I feel attacked? As…
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Continue reading →: We can keep on waiting.At the ripened age of 30 something, I have finally figured out that maybe everything isn’t a kosher as I’ve always thought. For one, it took me seven years to figure out that maybe the reason I don’t love listening to the hip music my husband likes to listen to…






