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Moving Beyond Political Bifurcation Towards the “Law of Three”
I have a news flash for you. God doesn’t take sides. He’s not a Democrat, and he’s not a Republican. He’s not even an American. To view God as such is incredibly small-minded. Continue reading
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Emotional Overwhelm and the Welcoming Prayer
Subtitle: What “Surrender” Doesn’t Mean. I’m struggling so much this week with internal drama. There are external pressures and relationships in my life right now that are creating a pressure-cooker of dissatisfaction and anger in my being. I’ve been angry… Continue reading
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Myths About the “Will of God”
Reconsider that given a set of options there is only one choice that is within the “will of God.” Which choice is THE choice? Is God for one, and against the other? But God is often not that binary. Continue reading
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Building Meaningful Work
What is meaningful work and how do we go about it? Whether you are creating something, serving clients, running a business, or being a parent, we all have to face the question of “why do we do the things that… Continue reading
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An Infinite Number of Ways to be Born Again
Being born again is about presence and a way of being in the world. It’s about reaching for new lenses each time the one you currently hold gets too scratched or cloudy. We grow out of our current stages of… Continue reading
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Seeking Validation and the Rat Race of Social Media
Why am turning to the feeds? Am I bored? Insecure? Looking for worth? Spiraling in comparisons? Venting my anger? Numbing out to avoid something more difficult in my life, or even just a mundane task or a five-minute wait that… Continue reading
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Perceptions of Time
“We all have the same amount of time, so feeling like we have all the time in the world is really about managing expectations. Some suffering, the kind we must learn to be good at, is inevitable. But other suffering… Continue reading
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Spacious Lament
I had to leave church in order to grieve and be a mess because my grief and mess seemed to make others uncomfortable. They didn’t know what to do with me. Some sadness might be allowed, but then it needed… Continue reading
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Prayer as a Way of Being in the World
In The Awakened Heart, Gerald G. May writes, “I think most people have trouble with prayer because prayer is really an act of love, and therefore demands vulnerability. As with the love, the more we try to control prayer, the… Continue reading
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Jesus Doesn’t Fix Everything
At the root of asking, Why do bad things happen? is a much deeper, dangerous question: Does God love me? Personally, I think the challenge is to answer the second question without always getting a clear answer to the first.… Continue reading
Danielle Klafter 