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Two years in blogs.
It’s possible I’m the world’s biggest sentimental fool, but if that’s the case, I’ll go ahead and embrace it. As my time in England is finishing up, I’ve been thinking back over some of the biggest...
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Hey, pickle.
Hey, pickle. I realize we only just met, but I really feel like this is the real thing. It’s too bad I didn’t realize it sooner. My friends Clare and Gem and I had a sandwich assembly line going the...
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Taking my skates off.
Something felt amiss when I woke up this morning. The bed was crackling too much, for one thing. It took me a minute to realize that’s because the dark orange sheets I’ve been sleeping on for two years...
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Cheers. xx
Dear America, Hiya. It’s been a while. I’m writing to say that as I readjust to life within your borders, there are a few things you could kindly do to make this transition a little easier for me. I...
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Get in on the Gathering.
All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me … go therefore and make disciples … “A lot of people memorize this passage, but are we doing it? Is it happening?” I’m not gonna lie, this...
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Multiply.
I know that feeling, the one Francis Chan is talking about. The one where you hear the truth just as Jesus spoke it to the rich young ruler and go away sad, heart rent in two. And then do nothing....
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The church you hardly see.
If you look at Cuba from the outside, you can hardly see the church. David Platt went looking for it. “I met a guy who had a house church, and that church had planted 60 other churches,” he said. And...
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Legitimacy in addiction.
(Photo courtesy of @travelwithchris) “You’re in good company if you’ve struggled with that.” I lay in the Papasan chair on the screened back porch. The breeze blew and stirred up the leaves on the...
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Good gifts.
What is frankincense? And why did God rally the nations with a star so that they could lay it at the feet of His Son? “The gifts are intensifiers of desire for Christ himself in much the same way that...
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‘Thoughts on a funeral.’
My friend Clare had a vision she was going to die young. Three weeks ago, she went suddenly to be with Jesus. It was time to face it. I was standing on the High Street of my former hometown in England,...
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Grief redeemed.
“Right. So let me get this straight. There are actual people called Bubba. And that’s their name.” “Yep.” “And I can meet one?” “Shouldn’t be a problem. They’re everywhere. Even my grandmother’s name...
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A wedding under a bridge.
Plastic wrappers and other pieces of litter rustled like tumbleweed across the empty space under the bridge yesterday afternoon. Two hours later, enough chairs were set up to seat several hundred of...
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Held.
“I think God’s people are at their strongest when they are broken, because God can use them to do incredible things when they say, ‘All I can do is rely on God.’” – Mark Stuart When I woke up that day,...
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It’s too big.
Some days I actually feel like my heart might explode. He LOVES us. LOVES. us. It’s like I can’t sing loud enough, stick my hands in the air high enough, say it well enough. It makes me slam my palms...
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The house of my sojourning.
I laughed yesterday morning before I ever climbed out of the sheets. I woke up 33 yesterday. In a bunk bed. In a room full of stuffed animals and children’s books. This on a birthday where I feel...
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‘We can find you one.’
“I’m so happy to meet your new husband,” she said to a friend before jabbing me jokingly with an elbow as I passed. “Now you just need to find Grace one.” She patted my arm. “I heard what you said...
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The roar of the darkness.
The power popped, and the air was warm, and 14 of us piled into the thick dark of my parents’ windowless bedroom. We tried to keep the toddlers away from the one lit candle. We tried to keep our...
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Ticket day.
I look back on that day, and I think there’s only one thing she could’ve thought. Lunatic. There I was, fingers buried up to the knuckles in my little bedroom’s fairly industrial carpet, tears forming...
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Real fear.
The rain splattered hard against the window. Just didn’t seem right for the desert. I rolled the legs of my soaked jeans down and noticed the damp marks my feet were leaving on the tile floor. My...
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Loud.
My heart pounded as I lay there in the dark. Two donkeys conversed outside. A rooster crowed. The call to prayer from the local mosque blared across the African desert. And the sand didn’t soak up...
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