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Where the World Cannot Hurt You {Fly} // Day 14
Light-hearted boy, Soar up where you belong with birds. The world cannot hold you here. It’s hurts cannot bind your mind. The plane’s wings are your arms, The cabin, your solace To see. Go— Where only...
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How Failure Grows Beauty Like Wild Juniper {Interview & GIVEAWAY}
This lady knows all about great beauty beginning from small dreams and failure. Erin Talley is a mama, wife, jewelry maker, small business co-owner of Wild Juniper, and overcomer. She is one of my...
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10 Days of #ScaryStories: Hope Can Grow in the Dark // part 1
Some kinds of hope only grow in the dark, the kinds born from our deepest fears actually coming true. For the next two weeks, I’ll be sharing stories from women who have been through scary stories,...
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What I Am {Worth} // Day 18
Worth is a mirror, A shining image of what is. How the light catches my skin and eye, The gleam of a dream I hope to be, I think? Then I see how a dream is not The me I am That you see. Just as I see...
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When It Is So Dark I Cannot See, You are There (by Julie Baun) //...
Photo by Eric Berthe The night Mark died was such an ordinary night, which has always been so strange to me. And sort of curious. How can the night you lose your childhood love, your best friend, your...
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I’m a ‘Fraidy Cat: God’s Kindness in Identity Loss (by Holly Shaw) //...
I am a ‘fraidy cat—not because I love ghost stories or Stephen King is my best friend (well, not really, but in my head). No, I am a ‘fraidy cat in an...
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My Perfect Fear: Mothering Special Needs (by Sue Wager) // #ScaryStories part 4
He was born and quickly the nurses and doctors mobilized—he wasn’t breathing, respiratory distress. My husband and I couldn’t believe it. This was not the story we desired. This was not going...
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When Blind Faith Heals (by Jennifer Pollard) // #ScaryStories part 5
I have never felt so out of control and helpless in my entire life. Those days were some of the darkest I have ever experienced as a mother. During the first three months of Hudson’s life we knew our...
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Why Silence Has Never Served Me // Day 24
Silence has never served me Just contrained me Restrained me, Told me to be afraid Of not being enough Or too much. Just. Not. Right. Sometimes we don’t say Because we fear What we can’t see Or we...
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When Fear Becomes Faith (guest post) // #ScaryStories part 8
In my first memory, I am running through my grandfather’s garden. It is a warm summer’s day, and the mud is soft under my feet. I feel safe and happy in a place filled with memories of being loved....
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The Surprise I Didn’t Want + the Saving Grace That Followed
© Unsplash at canva.com Surprise. This word popped up on a podcast at 5 a.m. as I drove down the highway early Monday morning. Surprise. All I could concentrate my mind on as I sped through darkness I...
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Hold On and Look Up: Everyday Decisions on Rope Bridges
Copyright: Unsplash at Canva.com I’m terrified of heights and decisions. The mortifying paralysis they induce in my body is equal. In both situations, I am afraid to fall and to fail. My gaze gets...
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We Speak So Darkness Will Not Take the Dawn
Image by nicksumm @ morguefile.com I am just a woman, a mother, who struggles to not scream in the shower on bad days and practices breathing in the carpool lane on good ones. To not throw something...
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Open Call for Broken Unsophisticates, AKA the God-Loyal
// He reveals himself to humdrum unsophisticates. Do you know something? Have something to offer? Forget it. He’s not interested (at least, not what’s in you head, on your resume, or on your calendar.)...
View ArticleFancy Boots, Falling Off Mountains, and Overcoming Fear with Friendship
Another step and I was certain my boot would slide out from under me, flinging my tall frame down…
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“I just want you to use me.” That’s what I’ve said to God for years. I deeply desire to…
View ArticleEvery Traveler Knows: We Are Safe in Our Shared Humanity
The four of us crammed in the line twisting through the tiny hallway of the country post office. There…
View ArticleSteady as She Flies
What would it be like to be a flying machine? This week’s Tweetspeak Poetry prompt challenges the poet to…
View ArticleWhat’s Next? A Certain Guide for an Uncertain Journey {NEW SERIES}
“I want to let you know we’re about to walk through Damascus gate,” our guide says to our small…
View ArticleSo Beyond This {What’s Next? Week 3}
Uncertainty feels so uncertain. When Charlottesville, Virginia, happened, any certainty in the story we tell ourselves about how advanced,…
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