Tag: love
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A Grateful Heart
When God is working on our hearts, he will crack them open. This process of refinement is painful. It involves loss–the death of our own desires–and a willingness to follow Him even when he is leading us away from everything we thought we wanted. Our hearts can’t crack open unless they break. But inside such…
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How Can We Know God Is Real?
If you’re grappling with this question, I want to say upfront: it’s not my aim to convince you through a theological treatise or scientific argument that God exists. I cannot use the powers of rhetoric at my disposal to force belief. I’ve observed that many people resist belief in God not because of evidence, but…
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What Is Joy?
Yesterday, my son went to Sunday school for the first time in his life… He actually stayed the entire time, without me having to either stay with him or retrieve him after 20 minutes, I mean. So, I was able to attend church in a physical, actual sanctuary, in-person, and stay the whole time–for the…
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A Living Sacrifice.
Recently, a friend reminded me of a verse in the New Testament that is significant to me: “I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship” (Romans 12:1). Allow me to back up a…
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Vulnerability Is Hard.
Learning to tell the truth, when you have learned how to pretend, is really, really hard. It is hard to overcome old patterns of coping–denial, distraction, avoidance, worry. It is hard to admit that you are not okay. It is hard–and very humbling. Some days I find myself falling back into old habits instead of…
The Still Small Voice 