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Pre-Nostalgia
I am already nostalgic for the days I am living in. There has been good in every season of my life, but none so solid, so quiet and calm, so deeply abiding as the good of now. Sometimes, I weep prematurely for the days when things will change. I indulge in more than my fair…
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I’m sorry that the friend you have isn’t the one I used to be.
I’m sorry for the unread messages. I’m sorry that I never called. I’m sorry that I missed your birthday. I’m sorry that the friend you have isn’t the one I used to be. I’m not who I once was. Not even for myself. My life. My body. My house. It’s all unrecognizable. Half held conversations,…
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Someone once said…
Have you ever considered that He designed you with your exact desires and skills, strengths and weaknesses, and He works relentlessly and ardently to help you realize those desires? There is coming a confluence of plan and desire, and every day is a step closer to that empyreal day—a day of rested passion, of founded…
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For Daniel: Is it year 6 already?
If we’re being honest, I never thought we’d end up together. Even on the days I wanted you most. I was everything a good Christian mom warned her son against. Bad stock from a bad breed; a history drenched and dripping in scarlet. And yet, here we are. 12 years past our first “hello’s,” and…
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6 Feet Apart
If you had told me 7 weeks ago that the next time I would be “all together” with my church family would be 6 feet apart in a parking lot, I would have thought you were barking mad. If I had known that the last Sunday was gonna be the last Sunday, I would have…
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Love One Another
When we read in Scripture, “Love one another,” that doesn’t mean, “Barely tolerate,” “Be nice to, but don’t get too close to,” or, “Invite to join, but otherwise avoid” one another. It means support and champion one another. It means bear with, rejoice with and mourn with one another. It means when you hurt one…
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Aren’t I Supposed to Be Successful by 30?
I had a plan. I was going to graduate from college at 22. Be married by 25. Start having kids at 28. And be a successful, functioning, debt-less adult by 30. Let’s all applaud my ignorance together.
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I meant to be thinner for my wedding.
I was going to start working out 6 months before, because I was going to have a killer body for the honeymoon…
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I just wanna go home
My heart cries out for home, but as a wayfaring wanderer, my rootless soul doesn’t recognize “home” as a single place. What a joy and a devastation to love and be loved in so many places. Where is home? Where should home be? Is home the place where people knew me best then, or where…
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Dear Pastor, Your Platform is Your Pulpit
Last week, I was scrolling through Facebook (my obvious first mistake), when I came across a comment that made my blood boil a little more than the usual rubbish. This is not an attack on you. I know you are human. Yes, of course you are human. Human and weak; fragile and filled with mistakes…
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