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I was exhausted: physically, emotionally, and spiritually depleted of joy and hope. I just needed a break, somehow to find rest in the midst of around-the-clock demands. Guilt and regret plagued my conscience. I said “yes” to a call from the Lord, but now it was a burden. As the sun rose each morning, I felt far from the mercies…
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The melodious sonnet by popular country band Rascal Flatt, God Bless the Broken Road, was the first song my husband and I danced to on our wedding day. On that happy October day, we swayed back and forth, content in one another’s arms. We had both traveled down the cobblestones of a past marred by brokenness before meeting each other, and during our first…
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Did your childhood soundtrack include, “I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart”? I recently sang this children’s classic with my son, when he blurted out, “But what if I don’t?” The boy has a disarming way of detonating a truth bomb. “What if I don’t have joy down in my heart? How can I get some?” Joy is…
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Tears spilled onto my lap as I sat alone at the airport terminal awaiting my flight. My spirit withered within. In a broken and dark season of life, I believed that God was disappointed and angry with me. The bitterness of my disgrace stung my heart and sowed the lie that I was unworthy of God’s love or protection. As…
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Who likes the “S” word? It lands with a thud: submission. Why does this word make some of us bristle? Ol’ Blue Eyes expresses the natural human condition in his sonorous lines, “I did it my way.” At many junctures in life, in a thousand different ways, we are each invited to embark on a life-long process of surrender. This…
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My tongue was like a hot knife through butter. My husband was the butter. You know this did not go well. During our days of courtship, our budding relationship was characterized by constant quarrels. We were quite young – I was a teenager – and I regularly exhibited the immaturity to prove it. I had to argue. A fast-paced verbal…
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