Tag: faith
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Tender Truth
This past weekend I spent time with a long-time friend, the kind of friend who knows your story and isn’t afraid to speak honestly about life and faith. Somewhere between laughter, reflection, and the quiet spaces where meaningful conversations often unfold, we found ourselves talking about kindness. More specifically, we talked about how many followers…
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Hugging Hope in the Ruins
There are endings that rearrange furniture. And then there are endings that rearrange you. When significant relationships come to an end—through divorce, death, estrangement, or quiet unraveling—it can feel like the architecture of your life has collapsed. The rooms are still there, but the meaning inside them is gone. The rhythms you once knew by…
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Everyday gifts
A few days ago, I had the gift of hearing Ann Voskamp speak at a conference, and her words stirred something familiar and tender in me. Years ago, her book One Thousand Gifts deeply marked my faith, teaching me to name grace in the everyday. Listening to her reflect on enduring suffering — something we…
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Grace at the Threshold
Grace is often quiet. It does not always arrive wrapped in ease or answered prayers the way we imagined. Sometimes grace is simply God sustaining us through what we never expected to endure. Gratitude is the moment our hearts awaken to this truth — the realization that even within loss, transition, and uncertainty, God has…
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Lavish Grace
This past season, God has undone me—in the best way. Not with spectacle.Not with sudden fixes or dramatic reversals.But with lavish provision—the kind that overwhelms your heart long before it answers your prayers. There is no other word for it: extravagant. I used to associate extravagance with excess, with things unnecessary or over the top.…
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Beautiful Tension
There is a quiet lie we sometimes believe: that joy and suffering cannot exist in the same space. That if life is heavy, joy must be absent. That if grief is present, gratitude must be forced or fake. But I am learning—slowly and tenderly—that this is not how God works. Joy does not wait until…
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Between Heartache and Hope
There is a place we often live that no one prepares us for. It is not the deep valley of despair, and it is not the high ground of joy. It is the space in between—where heartache still aches, and hope still breathes. It is the place where faith is not loud or triumphant, but…
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Carried Not Crushed
This year did not unfold the way I would have chosen. It was a year marked by heartache and loss, by challenges that felt unrelenting, by fear that crept in quietly and grief that arrived without asking permission. There were moments when the weight of it all felt heavier than I knew how to carry.…
Braving Authenticity 