Category: Leaving Survival Mode

Why Writing about the Laundry is Still Talking about Jesus

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I once took a Christian writing correspondence class. It helped me in some ways, but in other ways I hated it. Here’s why: they actually had the gall to talk about how to sell your work for money. I was 19. I believed that writing was a ministry for gosh darn’s sake and how secular […]

Never Going Back to Perfect

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This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on Opening Toward God: our part in letting God work. Go here to read the intro and find links to the additional posts.  We all have times of wrestling with God. One of my most profound began when I sat in my first Bible study class in Bible college, […]

Not Holding On Anymore

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This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on Opening Toward God: our part in letting God work. Go here to read the intro and find links to the additional posts. I have an embarrassing confession. When I was in high school, I excelled at “running into” people I wanted to be around, most specifically, my crushes. At […]

No Longer a Victim

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This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on Opening Toward God: our part in letting God work. Go here to read the intro and find links to the additional posts.  My kids play this crazy “Rolling Game” with their daddy. He rolls over the bed, back and forth, and they try to jump over him. Sometimes they […]

Show Me the Lies

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This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on Opening Toward God: our part in letting God work. Go here to read the intro and find links to the additional posts.  There are two things every Christian should remember every day: Jesus loves me, no matter what. Satan is shooting lies at me. If we […]

Off with the Old, On with the New

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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I would turn myself into a morning person who could function on about 5 1/2 hours of sleep. Helpful in this season of motherhood. Or I would erase my emotions’ ability to go from 0-60 in 0.5 seconds flat. Helpful in all of […]