Ability to Fail
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I have lived on the margins twice in my life, and from the outside I know it looks the same. That’s the strange part. Same distance from the center, same refusal to live the way everyone tells you to live, same sense of standing slightly outside the flow of things, watching instead of participating. But…
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We’ve turned “God loves you” into “God affirms everything you do.” That isn’t love.That’s abandonment dressed up as kindness. Real love corrects. It sharpens. It refuses to leave you as it found you. A good father does not stand by while his child walks toward harm, nodding in approval so he can feel gentle. He…
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Moments of reflection, what better way to start the week. One of the most beautiful things about healing with God is that the battle is not mine any more, but His! Coming through a home of incest left daily battles that followed me in life. The truth God taught me about fighting for me was…
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Moments of reflection, what better way to start the week. I have learned through the years that those around me matter. I’m not talking about causal acquaintances. What I am talking about is my inner circle. Have I asked God what he thinks? There is a bible story in Joshua 9 that talks about the…
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What happens when a baby gets dropped on their head? The worry is that the baby may have a skull fracture or internal injury, like bleeding on the brain (intracranial hemorrhage). Without immediate treatment, bleeding can worsen and put pressure on the brain, causing a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Immediate attention and treatment is needed and…
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Have you ever had those days where you just wanted to fall down? Absoluetely collapse? I certainly have. Many days. Guess what I did? I’d run until I had to collapse. But, collapse I had to do. I just don’t always have the strength life takes. I didn’t always have the answers for the pain…
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On the discussion of fear, sometimes I am hard pressed to determine which emotion I am really feeling. Sometimes my fear swirled with other things like grief and anger. When I began to grieve for the many losses I’d racked up in my life, some of my fear began to dissipate. I was learning that…
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On the discussion of fear, do you have a fear of churches, clergymen and religious establishments? I do! And, I’ll tell you why. There was this prophet in the Old Testament they called the “weeping prophet.” His name was Jeremiah. He denounced social injustices of his time and said profound things like, “This is what the…
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On the discussion of fear, have you ever got into the downward spiral that just keeps you spinning? You know — that feeling of just being scared….scared of everything? I am having a full hip replacement in a few days and my mind swirls with thoughts of fear. Will I make it through. How much…
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On the discussion of fear, if we hold ourselves accountable for how we live and if we believe that God holds us accountable, don’t we also then believe the guilty are held accountable? Time and time again I see the innocent walk on without justice. I hear story after story of how the abuser walks…