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Unpredictably Sideways

Do you ever feel like your life is rolling on oval wheels? Fight as you may, normalcy, stability and balance elude you. Life is uncertain. Sometimes normal things go unpredictably sideways. It seems, too, that the phenomenon is cyclical. During my teen years, I spent oodles and oodles of hours in the gym. There I

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About Saving Dying Relationships

Are there relationships in your life that feel like untended gardens? Opportunities pass one after the next until one day you aren’t sure if the relationship can be saved, too much water under the bridge, time failed to heal, etc. I think about relationships a good bit. Recently, I came to an important conclusion about

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Crumbling Structure

     In 2019, I posted a piece called Crumbling Structure on my old blog site. As I worked on a piece I thought I would post this week, I remembered the old post. I decided to update it a bit as a precursor to the new post for next week. October 27, 2019:      When

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Living Successfully in Community

Do you have a community? Are you good at allowing people to come alongside you when life gets tough? We can’t be islands unto ourselves. We do not have to fake it until we make it. God made us for community. Living life even and single-minded may seem like safety, but it closes us off

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Being Vulnerable

Being vulnerable feels wrong. To willingly speak publicly, or at all, about what stirs your heart requires next-level courage. I forget that when I listen to speakers. I go purposefully to sit and listen. Most of the time I even pay to do so.  Beth Moore speaks to countless women, large arenas full of them.