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How Can We Nurture Deeper Friendships?

There’s a meme making its rounds on Instagram that goes something like this: “Do you know one of Jesus’ greatest miracles that no one ever talks about? . . He had 12 close friends in his 30s.”   Whoever came up with that joke struck some solid truth: as we get older, nurturing authentic friendships becomes more difficult than we’d ever ...

Hurting People Don’t Need This (As Much As We Think They Do)

Six months ago, our seemingly perfect life was fragmented by the sudden passing of my husband’s dad. As waves of grief engulfed us, we also got slammed with health concerns and job transitions, and the pressures that come with unforeseen changes. It felt like a punch in the gut, followed by less-intense-but-painful jabs that knocked ...

You’ve Got A Friend In Me?

Ever since the pandemic started, I’ve been on prayer calls with three friends. Well, er, they started out as “let’s pray together for 10 minutes” calls and morphed into “let's catch up for an hour and pray at the end of the mega chat-a-thon.” (Yup, get four like-minded women in one space with almost no ...
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