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View fullsize This morning, my mom asked me, “Is the Lord being kind to you today?” I replied, “I don’t know. How does one assess that?” She said, “How does your heart feel? Are you content, or are you striving with no end in
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View fullsize An announcement. It’s easy to feel small, invisible, unimportant. And sometimes that feels safer, too. Because if people can’t see us, then our failures or mistakes won’t be noticed. So we play small, minimize our presence, a
View fullsize On inadequacies (plus a goal for 2024)   We know Gideon as the guy God called to defeat the Midianites with a ragtag group of laypeople—NOT the mighty army they were up against (and his peculiar use of fleece to communicate with God). &nbs
View fullsize on the end of another semester. this past week has been a hard month (anyone else feel it?). C.S. Lewis wrote that to love at all is to be vulnerable, but life is way better having loved and lost than never having loved at all (egc paraphrase). wh
View fullsize Here’s my annual Advent post. Meaning—every year I repost this image because the message is so profound and deepens with each year of life + walking with Jesus. Here’s what I’ve learned: we tend to see Christmas as a fleeting