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How to Change You & Your People: The Habit of a Life-Giving Table
No one has mentored me quite like this woman. Sally Clarkson has poured me tea, has poured into me, has poured from a depth of rich wisdom and life well-lived and she loves from the deepest places. She...
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The Really Crazy, Unexpected Secret to Happiness When Things Are Hard
Right after I read the story, I go looking for an old horn to screw right to the wall. There are things worth the proclaiming. And after I find one, I walk around the house with the horn in hand trying...
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Dear Us: The Surprising (New) Way to Have a Stress-Free, WONDER-FULL Holiday...
Dear Us, This is our tender relief, on the 25th of the month, just 8 Wednesdays from Christmas: When the holidays hit this year, we’re all choosing holy days more than hyped-up days. When the holidays...
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6 Secrets that 3 Kids with Hard Life Diagnoses Know: An Anthem for a...
The day I release a book out into the world, I go see the heart doctor. Her heart doctor, not mine. Because hearts do break around here. And us and our babies know it: Life has this painful way of...
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How to live through anything these holidays when you’re finding it hard to...
The woman I meet up on the concourse, she tells me she was done. Done with the man and the ring and the vows, done with the kids, done with her life. Her eyes are so large and fragile, hands trembling,...
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How to not have or want more but how to BE more because that’s the ultimate goal
There are only so many full orbits around the sun, and who makes time to lie in bed and listen to rain thrumming on roofs or to take someone for strawberry ice cream sundaes and linger down at the...
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Tired of the Hustle & Want Some Holy? When You Just Want the Gift of the...
There was a time my mama didn’t like Christmas much and she likes most every day just fine and dandy, thank you very much. Those totes full of Christmas ornaments and decor and all the fixing that fine...
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The New Houston Strong: Don’t Read Unless You Want Your Faith to Grow Crazy...
T he woman we’re standing with, she is kinda a modern-day Job in a floral kimono. Even if she looks like any woman you might see in a Texas H-E-B grocery store or in a Sunday morning pew on a steamy...
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What Advent Really Is : What We All Really Need This Season : & How to Be A...
When I found this little ceramic Christmas tree from the 70’s — that had no star? Just a table-top tree with translucent multi-colored bulbs, up on the upper shelf of a piled and tilting thrift store?...
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What Cures those Unspoken Feelings of Abandonment & How That Can Change Your...
They say they found Him wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger, but I have absolutely no idea how they found my daughter. I wasn’t there. I have no idea if they found her naked or swaddled in...
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How to Stop the Fighting Under Your Roof & Have a Bit of Peace & a Whole Lot...
Rarely have I encountered someone with the humble determination September McCarthy shows in her journey of motherhood. As she follows the Lord’s call to equip her own children to build His kingdom, she...
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Dear Predators Who Don’t Know (Or Maybe Do) That They are Predators: (And How...
It may have taken us awhile for us to find our voice — but don’t you dare ask us why it took us so long. When someone takes something from you that doesn’t belong to them — they take your voice too....
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We All Want it: This Is What Finding Some Real Peace REALLY Means (Because...
I think of that later, how his hands look like they are worn with peace, the way he’s won a good life by forging peace no matter the heat of things. His hand had reached for mine in the woods. When the...
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The Nativity That All of Us Are Actually In: A Modern-Day Nativity
About that time, leaders of all sorts and stripes, for a myriad of well-debated reasons, ordered cuts to budgets and the raising of fences throughout the Western World. This wasn’t the first census to...
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How To Stop All Procrastination: Dear You Trying to Do that Hard Thing in the...
Dear Lovely You, who doesn’t want to do that hard thing in the New Year, who doesn’t want to get on the treadmill, or go for a run, or sort through the closets, or tackle the garage, or the piles of...
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The Most Important Skill that Your 2018 Really Needs
Spun. Some guy with a mullet and loud voice had lobbed that one word my way back before the 21st century. In all his 1989 wisdom, he had flicked his feathered hair back and snorted over a soggy...
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How to love Your Reflection
So some kid accidentally dropped a dozen eggs all over the floor this morning. You can just close your lovely eyes and imagine how extraordinarily well that ended. But one particularly helpful/lazy...
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How To be Brave and Face Hard Things: (hard habits, procrastination,...
Dear Kid — and dear you trying to be brave and face hard things: I know it seems the unbelievable impossible— but really — it’s going to happen one day to you too. Turns out you can blink and find your...
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How to Not Get Duped into Living The Fake Beatitudes (& how a Kid in Africa...
You can sit in a mud hut in Africa, talking about God and feel like an outed fraud. The heat is unbearable. Dianah sits in a shaft of light from the only window. Her mother, wrapped in a vibrant orange...
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What You Kinda Long For: The Grace of Letting Go of Having It All Together
This woman. She knows it: In a world that seems so broken, don’t we so long for the peace and perfection of the Garden? After all, we were made for Eden. And yet, somehow we turn that longing for...
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