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Got Stuff You Can’t Figure Out About Your Life? Unresolved is Ok

Do you have stuff in your life that is unresolved? How often do you not sleep well because you’ve got something on your mind? Me: pretty often. Toss and turn. Toss and turn. At least a couple times a week. My husband thinks I’m an insomniac but the truth of the matter is if I …

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Stop What You Are Doing Now and Tidy: A Spiritual Take on Marie Kondo

It’s all the craze these days especially thanks to this Netflix show and I have to admit that I have joined the bandwagon. Over the past month, I’ve gotten everyone in my household (visitors included) watching this show. I’ve even been reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up while in my car on the way to work. …

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Why I’m Not Giving Up Anything for Lent

What are you giving up for Lent this year? How many times have you been asked that question already . . . I really don’t like it when folks ask me that. I’m sure it’s because they assume I have something really holy to offer. Yet I don’t. I’ve never really fasted more than a …

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How Do I Manage Messy Relationships?

How do I manage messy relationships? Such is a question I’m often asked as a pastor and especially when I’m in conversations with young adults. Life can be so complicated as all our humanness bumps up against each other producing resentments, disappointment even grief. Do I manage messy relationships well? I know the folks closest …

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It’s Time to Start Over

It’s Time to Start Over . . . a sermon planned for the Palisades Community Church on January 13, 2019 but unable to be given due to snow.  Begin by reading Mark 1:9-11 Anyone here on the second Sunday of January already in need of a new start? You thought you’d stop eating so many …

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Do You Feel Stuck in Life?

During the darkest days of our infertility journey, my prayers went like this: “How long O Lord? How long will you keep us childless?” There’s not a lot of joy in this. Asking for the same thing over and over. Being stuck. I’ve heard from a lot of couples dealing with infertility the feeling of …

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When You Find Yourself Stuck: What Then?

When you find yourself stuck: what then? Questions like these are ones that I’ve tried to teach through the past several years. I even did a email devotional series on this topic recently (which if you haven’t checked out, learn more here). And certainly they are the kind of questions that people seek my input …

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You had a baby. Now, how in the world can you still be creative?

Before we brought our baby home almost two years ago, I thought I had my life pace figured out. I was in the process of re-defining parenthood as mother without children in her home, but a mother nonetheless. I founded Our Courageous Kids to help me (and others) empower children around the world. My writing …

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How Will You Be Kind on Father’s Day?

Not all men are fathers. Men can long for children and not have them or lost a child in their family. Families can have their fathers taken from them too soon. Father’s Day is tough day for many.  Let’s not forget! The anticipation of what will be said (or not said) in church, especially on …

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When Life is Really Hard and You Can’t Talk About It

Life is really hard and we have to learn to talk about it. In so many Christian communities I know, there’s such a “How are you?” “I am fine” sweetness in the air. We look pretty. We talk pretty. And we go home from being together as hurt as we walked in the doors. For, …

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Need a Inclusive Prayer for Mother’s Day?

This weekend, Mother’s Day, while joy-filled for many is full of anxiety for others. If you’re in the anxiety producing camp, know I am with you. It’s so hard to have complicated feelings about the mothers in your life.  It’s so hard to have longings for children (or relationships) unfulfilled. Or to be grieving when …

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How do you get through infertility? A Guest Post

Our National Infertility Week series continues today. (Did you miss the post from Chris Thomas earlier? If so, stop now and read it here). I’m so glad to introduce you to Maren McLean Persaud, my new favorite Canadian who tells a story of hope, longing and loss. Here are her beautiful words- _______________ This past fall, we …

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