• Welcoming Resistance

    Welcoming Resistance

    No matter what I want to build into my life—a workout regime, a writing habit, a parenting shift, marital intimacy—I have to face resistance if I want to embrace that lifestyle or task. But there’s something in me that resists even resistance itself. I have this idolization in the back of my head that somehow…

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  • Rewilding Motherhood

    Rewilding Motherhood

    I felt my deep longings were seen and voiced by Evans. Also, the limitations of this season of life and our place in the world as women. It was a book that didn’t ask me to do or accomplish anything else in my already full plate. But it did invite me to pause and shift…

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  • An Afternoon Hike: Lessons in Being Present to What is Already There

    Every time I’d seen this sign for a hike at this campground on previous trips, I’d outright ignored it. Yeah right, I thought. That’ll be a joke. But this time I didn’t go for the view. I was just desperate to be alone.

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  • Who My Five-Year-Old Wants to Vote For

    Our family was sitting around the dinner table and my five-year-old daughter said, “What’s voting?” Commence civic education lesson one.

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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.

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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 a lot—a much higher percentage of my time than is normally like me. It’s uncomfortable…

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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.

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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 we do?” and “why do they matter?”

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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 life, and we grow into new ones. And we are reborn and reborn and reborn.

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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 I don’t want to face?

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