This month holds many memories for me. I’ve lost special people in my life, and for a long time, I ran from that pain instead of meeting it. This year, I’m learning what it means to start grieving without guilt instead of running from it. I’ve dreaded this month for a long time. This year, […]
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A friend read my last post and said it felt like I’d written it about her. This is her story of the moment she caught herself shrinking and chose something different. This continues the “Do You Remember Her?” conversation. If you haven’t read the first post, start there. This picks up right where it left
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A few months ago, while preparing my activities for the week. I counted eleven things on my to-do list before 9 a.m. Nothing urgent, really. Just emails, calls, a workout I kept promising myself, a project I’d been “getting to” for months. I stared at that list and felt something I couldn’t quite name. It
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A few months ago, my friend suggested we go on a retreat together. My first instinct was to decline. I told myself I didn’t have the time. I have a lot going on, and too much to catch up on. But something in me pushed back against that excuse, and I decided to go anyway.
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She hugged me first. Then she asked, “How are you?” Such a simple question, but I couldn’t answer it. I saw the genuine concern in her eyes and how worried she was for me. Something in me broke open. I didn’t expect a question that small to make me cry that hard. For the first
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I was talking to my friend’s daughter recently. She had just gained admission to one of our universities, and I asked to see her course materials. I flipped through them and asked her a few questions about the concepts. She could recite the definitions word for word. But when I asked her to explain one
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How did you learn about God? For many of us, it started in Sunday school. Small chairs, Bible stories, and something else sitting quietly alongside them: fear. We grew up imagining God as someone ready to strike at the slightest mistake. We learned to fear the very One who loves us beyond our imagination. It
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I once attended a parenting conference. During the discussion, a woman stood up and shared what she was going through with her teenagers. She said no one listens to her anymore. She asked the room, almost in tears, how she may have failed her children. Something about that question stayed with me. But I don’t
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There’s a quiet kind of guilt that comes with falling off track. It often comes as a whisper in our hearts — “You said you’d do this. Where were you?” Maybe it’s a habit you dropped. A goal you stopped talking about. A version of yourself you promised to become by now, and somehow, life
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There is a version of yourself you have been quietly imagining. Not the one performing for everyone else’s approval, but the one you return to in honest moments—the person you actually want to become. Personal growth is the intentional work of closing the distance between who you are today and who you would want to
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