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‘Am’ Is All That Matters – Why ‘The Chosen’ Speaks To Us
At the end of every show in the series The Chosen, my 11-year-old daughter asks with incredulity: “What?! It’s done already? Can we watch another one? Pleeeaseeee!”
While my husband and I are pretty particular about limited screen time, we’ve indulged her every now and then. (There could, ahem, be the "possibility" that we allowed “another one” because ...
Seven Unhelpful Words When Someone Is Hurting (And What To Say Instead)
No one wants to be unempathetic when a friend is in a painful situation.
Or at least only a handful of Devil-Wears-Prada-type boss people actually set out to be callous about others’ problems. Most of us want to say the right thing to a hurting friend.
But, sometimes, one’s foot does this weird thing and gets stuck ...
Cry Out In A Crisis
We're slowly emerging from a harrowing season.
About a month ago, as part of a volunteer helpline, I heard people weep on the phone as they scrambled for hospital beds for their loved ones who fought for their lives. I remember the voices of some of them. A woman wailing—her mom had died and her sister ...
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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