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Supermom
“I am not a supermom,” she says. She protests the label as though it were a badge of shame– her own scarlet letter– rather than a comment of admiration. She hears the word and thinks not of the work...
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Wind and Flesh and Jesus
The wind comes. It comes howling and shows no mercy and it breathes on the windows with rattling breaths and it flings the chairs around the yard. The trees bend before it and I huddle under a blanket...
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This Broken Christmas
I was thinking last week, walking quiet and heavy under the burden of the kindness of others, that it seems God breaks me every Christmas. He breaks my heart, my will, my pride, and when I start to...
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Hope for the Broken
Today I am closer to the brokenness and wrongness of this life than I usually am. Most of the time I can forget that this life the way we live it is not the way we were created to live. I forget that I...
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In Which I Preach Just for a Moment or Two
I am broken. So are you. Many of you I haven’t ever met. Some of my readers are people I have known and shared with online for years, yet if I passed you on the street I might not recognize you. This...
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In November
Nearly two weeks the same post has sat at the top of this blog, and it seems silly but that thought fills me with shame. So much preventing the writing– so much trivial and important, so much big and...
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Broken Christmas
a repost from the archives . . . I was thinking last week, walking quiet and heavy under the burden of the kindness of others, that it seems God breaks me every Christmas. He breaks my heart, my will,...
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Broken Peaces
It caught my eye as I stood in a long line of Christmas shoppers, all doing our best to maintain our merry. I asked the lady behind me if it were okay if I slipped out of line just for a moment to grab...
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I Am Naomi
I recently finished a study of the book of Ruth, using the book Ruth: Loss, Love, and Legacy by Kelly Minter. I have heard this story a hundred times, but it was so challenging to go through it slowly...
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