Hi there! I had so much fun recording a podcast with my friend Kelly! I have missed these rich conversations about faith and about saying YES! to a greater calling on our lives – to dreaming BIG with God!!! I’m so excited to share this conversation on the podcast with you! Kelly Johnson and
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Be Encouraged!
Last week I wrote about how difficult it can be to write honestly when I worry about people’s reactions. I know that I shouldn’t care about that but I do. I want to be liked. It’s important to me (sometimes too important) that people are happy and not offended and everyone plays nice together. Plus,
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Filling up and Pouring Out
I haven’t written in awhile and I miss it. It’s like a muscle. If it hasn’t been used, it starts to forget. I posted a blog entry yesterday and I forgot all the usual steps. I forgot to post on Facebook and I forgot to do some other administrative things that I won’t bore you with.
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The Criminal on the Cross
It’s Holy Week. Yesterday in church they read the Passion. As I was sitting there playing with my palm, trying to turn it into a cross, I thought of something new. When the criminal on the cross next to Jesus says to him “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” it made me
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Dad
“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.” —John Edgar Wideman It’s Father’s Day. It’s a tough one for me. My dad died 13 years ago. I woke up and read my email from the Writer’s Almanac. There was
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Write it down
On this day, June 14th, in 1942, Anne Frank began to keep her diary. It was one month before she and her family went into hiding. “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because