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When You Feel Like You’re Not In Control

“What in the world am I doing on this thing?” That single thought seized me as I found myself suspended from what was essentially a swing on steroids, 40 feet above the ground. The “thing” was actually called “The Giant Swing” and it was one of the activities at an adventure park we visited over the weekend. Not ...

Living In The In-Between of Holy Saturday

The Saturday between Good Friday and Easter has always felt somewhat nondescript to me. We do nothing much in particular. I probably spend most of my time in the kitchen prepping resurrection rolls (a tradition at our house) and baking lemon meringue pies (a recent but here-to-stay dessert for Easter lunch). Holy Saturday hasn’t felt especially ...

When You Don’t Know Which Way To Turn

Three men walk into a desert and get lost for seven days. Sounds like the start of a cheesy joke? Well, there’s no punchline—it’s actually the beginning of an interesting narrative in the book of 2 Kings. The three men were, in fact, kings. (Not to be confused with the magi who visited baby Jesus, although I’m not ...

Ready to Hit Reset on 2020?

The first six months of 2020 have sneaked past us. Six months of circumstances that no one saw coming. Six months where we faced fear, uncertainty, loss, and anxiety that the coronavirus and the glorious mess of regular life brought to our tables. And now we stand at the halfway point of the year that we ...
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