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If you’re feeling insecure….
In his book The Importance of Being Foolish, Brennan Manning writes: “What keeps me feeling insecure are my addictive emotional needs, which must always be satisfied. When

“Get to God, dear heart”
I love praying Scripture back to God. It wakes up my sluggish heart, it focuses my scattered thoughts, it helps me sense God’s presence. And it’s been

Imagine this….
I’m not sure where the idea of a harps-and-clouds heaven came from, but it’s as far from the truth as we could get. The God

Beautiful
I have several friends in their fifties and sixties who are living proof that a woman can grow more beautiful with age. Isn’t it hopeful

Painting
My dirty, sweaty 5-year-old is sitting on the back porch happily humming and throwing fistfuls of birdseed on the lawn. We’ll have an aviary here by

“The sacred art and mystery of forgiving”
Forgiveness may just be the hardest thing we do in life. At times it can be downright agonizing, amen? But agony meets ecstasy, and forgiveness