The real life story of a husband and wife building their dream home and the collateral damage to innocent bystanders. In this case? The cable guy. When you are married to an amazingly talented woodworker, and you have waited 25+ years for him to fulfill HIS dream (not mine!) of building his own home, and as you wait, you have…
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Changing Ourselves While Attached To Others: The Threads and Knots of our Lives
Some threads are beautiful. Some aren’t so beautiful. And then there are those knots. Those “other people” are the knots in our lives, right? Haha. Actually, we have a lot of our own knots—regrets, mistakes, fears, insecurities, and on and on we go. So…not only are we trying to work on our own stubborn knots and take the pretty threads…
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Loneliness
You know that saying—do what you love and the $$ will follow? Well, I say: do what you love/follow your passion and it will lead you to God, your people, your place, and your purpose—the things we really need in our lives. And, yes. Provision comes when we do what we were made to do. But what does this have…
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Community
True community. A sense of belonging. And security. We all crave it. But it can be so difficult to find, can’t it?! Especially now. “Now” in this fast-paced, over-burdened, technologically over-stimulated culture. We long to hear: “You are welcome to our gathering. We are in this together. Come. Sit. Belong. Let’s do this together.” For at least some part of…
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Walk It Out… (a spiritual discipline)
It is solved by walking. ~ St. Augustine Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. ~ Soren Kierkegaard We’ve…
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A Media Fast
Listen in silence because if your head is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God. ~ Mother Teresa During this time of our history and present culture, I think that doing a media fast will be harder than the strictest of a food fast, or any other fast. Technology and information are everywhere we look—as…
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