“If you’d told me that I’d sitting here, telling my story of salvation, I would’ve laughed, right in your face. And I would’ve told you, you were a crazy Christian. I didn’t believe there was hope. I didn’t believe there was true love. Five years ago, I didn’t even believe in myself.” ~~Kristin Kristin, a former Atheist, shares her testimony on how she discovered God, in...
Read More(Stay tuned for next week. I’ll be giving away books, free printables, and jewelry as part of my #write31days, series.) “All of God is accessible to you through Christ. Cultivate His knowledge above everything else on earth.” A.W. Tozer, Man: The Dwelling Place of God I sat on my blue couch, in Killeen, Texas, in the first house I ever owned with short-n-shaggy brown carpet under my feet. Fatigue...
Read More“Though I recommend it to no one–and I do not need to, for it arrives unbidden into many lives–depression compelled me to find the river of life hidden beneath the ice.” Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak Nobody comes to the end of one’s self, in a rush. Instead we come sliding in sideways, breathless and wide-eyed. We come here because we are un-done and we are done with our old life. We come because...
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The sun sets and night creeps in like shadows laying down to sleep. In darkness came the anxiety, slamming into me like a freight train. Frozen in my closest near my pajama’s, I sucked in a large, gulping breath. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does happen, it is a doozy. Our art, our writing, our stories, our friendships, and being our authentic selves, will undo us. There are days, perhaps many, when we wish...
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Fear has kept you. It has been days, weeks, a year, even years that your courage has been beat down as if you were good-for-nothing. Failure has scared you, but success, even more so. You have been transfixed and immobile by the magnitude of either direction, the possibilities and pressures of traveling on either path. But. This year will be different. Not that fear will cease all together, for it will still try...
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