An encouragement to recognize and wield our authority as followers of Christ
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Basically the most Christmas of any year ever. But it makes sense that a year of God’s favor would include so much of Emmanuel, God with us. Every day of any year, his best gift to us is the chance to be with him.
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Haley had prepared me: “It starts with shock. Lots of different feelings will wave over you. Take them all in as they are and digest later.”
And Marcy permitted me: “Feel the feels. When triggers come, don’t try to stop the tears- let yourself cry. Trust that eventually, God will lift you back up, and you’ll go on living.”
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It took me a while to know, I don’t need to punish myself for what I did when I was drowning. I think that’s what September was for… looking my failures square in the face, but also looking at Jesus, who paid for them, and knows what to do to make everything right.
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We had known it wouldn’t be easy. But I guess we failed to anticipate all the ways it would not be easy. We would have been better off calibrating our expectation for something like ‘wild, wild western showdown, on a boat, stuck in the mud, in the dark’.
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To Jay, who became my good friend, I gave the encouragement: “You’re the man for the job!” This became our rallying cry: I’d say it to him, or he’d give me its twin response: “You’re the girl for the job.”
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When it was time to go to work… but not in the way I had expected. God gave me 3 months to love my [HIS] people, right where I was.
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‘Therefore Jesus is able to save completely- to the uttermost!- those who draw near to God through him.’
-Hebrews 7:25
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As I worked my shifts in a continually empty tavern, sometimes bringing home no more than $4 in tips, I asked him honestly,
“Am I being faithful with little?”
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Chronicles of a dramatically favored year
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Something like a poem, about how God sits with me in grief and confusion, transposing truer and better thoughts over mine
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I wondered, “What if we are like kites..... we can fly in the breeze, every which way. But no matter where the wind blows us, our string is tied tightly to something?
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Kristen’s husband welcomed me with these forthright words:
“Emily— You are our close friend. You will see everything.”
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I invite myself to weddings. It's a character flaw of mine.
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A woman looking down from her balcony, shot me a disapproving look, that said, "I know you don't belong here, you riffraff." But I paid her no attention. I didn't belong anywhere.... and that's the paradox of the wandering life.
Well, wait….” Liam stopped himself before getting too deep into his colossal vision for my ten hours, ”First tell me, what is it that you’re looking to find in Israel?”
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Sharing Ordinary Gifts in Audacious Faith
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