Death & Faith

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Not on the agenda today is planning a funeral for my 11-year-old cat Rolo who died unexpectedly last night in an accident. I keep thinking of how I should tell the boys and it's just a sad situation. I really didn't expect to feel this deeply like I lost a friend. My house just seemed a little darker this morning without the light of her life. She was a great cat- perfect with the kids, chill … [Read more...]

Words More Than People

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I haven't written much in the last month or so but I am stepping back in to tell you why I haven't been writing, through writing, (kind of a silly process... I'm super aware =-)). It hasn't been that I don't have stories that could be shared it is simply that there is something new happening in my life and I have had to step back in order to understand it all. The Lord has been taking me on … [Read more...]

Reckless

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A dear friend of mine sent me a short sermon and this sermon was all about the bottom line of our identity as Christians. The totality of this sermon was that our final identity should be only found in that Christ is within us. Within this sermon the man speaking pulled up a book and read a quote from Tim Keller's, The Reason for God. The statement reads as this... "The essence of sin is … [Read more...]

The Bounce

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I feel fairly comfortable sharing my weaknesses here- it's a safe place for me and I feel anyone that comes here and decides to stay and read is doing it because they want to. I'm not shouting from a soapbox on a street corner, commanding people to pay attention to me- instead I feel sometimes like we are having a quiet conversation in a dimly lit coffee bar, as we lounge on comfortable chairs … [Read more...]