Friends, this podcast is powerful! My friend Rachel Phillips is brave and beautiful and amazing! She shares her story on the podcast of the anxiety that has been gripping her since she was a young girl. This is a story many of us can relate to and yet, sometimes we don’t talk about it. My
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Two years of Sundays
Two years ago when we moved to Austin, we had to find a church. I don’t mean that in the sense of, “It’s the right thing to do” but rather, we had to find a church. As in, “our lives depended on it”. It felt desperate. And guess what, desperate hearts find God. When you
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Letter to My Daughter on Her First Day of High School
This post originally appeared on the blog in 2012 when my oldest daughter started high school. This year my younger daughter starts her freshman year. I’m reposting because I’d say the same things to her. Of course I would say some different things too. Because she is different. And now, so am I. But as
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Just Be You
Just be you. That’s the advice my friend used to give me when I would go off on a tangent trying to fix myself and figure out my calling and when I wonder about why I was here and what I should do and what other people think of me. I used to think he
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Set That Woman Free!
Amen? What’s your favorite line? MIne’s this: You are Never too much and always enough. I especially loved the “never too much” part. Sometimes I feel like too much. Too loud, too passionate about ideas, too excited. I was told to “relax” a lot when I was younger. That’s really mean actually. I hate
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Blessed to Be Called Mom
Happy Mother’s Day! I am so honored I had the chance to speak at my mom’s church for her Mother’s Day Tea! The youngest girl there was 4 1/2 and the oldest woman there was 93 years old. It was an amazing day! Wishing all the moms out there many, many blessings! ©2013 Sue Bidstrup,
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Letter to My Daughter on Her First Day of High School
I woke up this morning thinking “Where did the time go?” I remember the day you were born. Well, actually, I’ll be honest, it’s a blur. After being induced and then going through 24 hours of labor, I was exhausted. And then upon seeing you, I was exhilarated… and scared…and overwhelmed. I felt a keen
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The List
Okay so I was feeling pretty sorry for myself the other day. It was one of those “down in the dumps” days. Someone asked me what I was doing now that I wasn’t “working” and I had a little hissy fit. Inside. I try not to have hissy fits on the outside. Inside I was screaming,