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Sweat the Small Stuff: It's the Big Stuff
So when did small get to be so big?"It's a design flaw."My mother's words drift from the sink, her milky white hands scrubbing dishes, skillet and spatula immersed under suds, and I'm searching....
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Uprighting the Earth
What do you need to bury in your life?Editor's Note:Please check out our new women's blog, http://akindredheart.comI've known she's been dying for quite some time and (dare I confess?) no remorse has...
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Stop Signs
How many of God's signs are your rolling through and not pausing to hear His voice?I think it was because my window was rolled down a few inches that he bothered to yell at me.Otherwise, he might have...
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Long Fire
Is the flame still alive for your?Like a teenager, September can't make up her mind. Her moody clouds, bursts of rain, can only be patiently endured. Then, she turns.And the boys, two cousins, pause in...
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Untangling Family Knots
Can it really get better if we get closer?"It'll get better if you get closer."John's mom laughs as she untangles five-year-old John and Malakai, two boys practicing for a three-legged-race at a...
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Under All These Masks
Who will deliver us?He never told us his name, that night. It's the way of the street. Concrete and asphalt and dark don't require you come with a name, for the streets christen with names of their...
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Why Faith Is an Answer to Prayer and Prayer Is an Answer to Faith
How is faith an answer to prayer?Imagine if each time you had the urge to text, tweet, email, log onto Facebook, or phone a friend to share some heartfelt need, you stopped and prayed instead.Really...
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Living the ultimate Romance
How strong can love grow?I watch you in the kitchen, slicing up a pie, summer evening sloping gold across your face.How do you know the moment when you love someone the most?I used to think it was that...
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The Real Love Stories... and Why There Really Are No Blurred Lines
So where can we find real love stories today?It was the music pumping through the speakers at the optometrist's that made me see you clear for who you are.The lyrics kept thrumming loud when I was...
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When You're Missing Being Loved
Sometimes we don't see that love is defined by surprise and sacrifice."Each wheat head is full this year — large. Like that year when you were in France."He pulls out a long, slender stalk — shows me...
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Yardsticks: How the hidden Dangers of Comparison Are Killing Us and Our...
Have we turned our yardsticks into swords?When our Hope-girl came in and sat at the foot of our bed, I knew she was looking for a way to stand."So what am I supposed to do now?"I gathered her long hair...
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How to Put One Foot in Front of the Other
Walking together means we give with thanks so no one walks alone.Some guy I ran into said you should walk through life as though your feet are kissing the earth.I tell him he really shouldn't use the...
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When You're this Close to Giving up Hope
Can you still believe you can fly with broken wings?She'd dropped her voice when she told me that first Sunday of Advent that the kid had tried to kill himself.That there had been texts, photos of a...
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What Jesus Said Is a Life-Changer: The Sozo Habit
One perspective change, one life change, and salvation can flood in! I sit at the prayer bench before my bedroom window.Outside, our boys roll millions of flakes into a snow fort.I read the passage in...
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how to learn the language of happiness
Arguing kids and the morning's first sunlight lead to thanksgiving? There's sun on the snow and in the morning porridge bowls.The boys argue loud, who knows about what — sometimes we don't understand...
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Loveliness: The Greater Problem of Good
Have we've been asking the wrong question for too long?So after dinner, she picks coneflowers in the garden.Cradles the long stems in her apron skirt, carries them up through the picket gate.And she...
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The Great Challenge Facing all Women
Are you response-able — able to respond to the right things, in the right ways, at the right time?Rain on a tin roof this morning.The rocking chairs out in the ash grove sit quiet, solid — steady in...
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What Women Need to Say to Each Other to Shatter the Dark
Who determines my worth as a daughter of the King?It's when you came up behind me and put your arms around me in the kitchen last night while I was making food for your Dad.The way you laid your head...
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How to Heal the Internet
How do we keep from throwing bricks at each other through our screens, large and small? Yeah, who knows what they are saying about you, about your choices, about what was right and what was wrong?Who...
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The Real Root of Brokenness
We must not dare forget to give thanks for how we're blessed and how great the Father is! It’s after I cut the squash right open.The two halves split and quartered there on the cutting board.After the...
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