Sometimes our pain sets us to wandering– looking around for direction, relief, a place to tend to our wounds. Our bodies are looking to fight, freeze, or flee and deep instinct takes over when we’re standing at the edge of the great chasm that is the breaking point. We run from fear, from grief, from pain, from things that are…
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So sometimes life up and says slow down. Tensions mount and tempers boil and anxiety takes center stage until the only solution is to come to a screeching halt and say enough already. It must be time to rest. When we don’t follow a natural rhythm of work and rest our bodies and minds reach their breaking point. The rest…
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Anxiety We throw that word around a lot. And there’s a little too much of it to go around these days, isn’t there? Many of us just understand anxiety as chronic stress, and we’ve all sure got more than our share of that right now. An endless to do list burdened by pandemics and politics and opinions- that’s enough to…
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Breathe in deep today. Let it come right through your lungs down to your toes, slow and easy and back out again. We get to be still in this gospel truth today: God the Creator created us in His image so that we might create reflections of Him to remind each other of His goodness. Beauty, love, art, kindness, wisdom-…
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? Really? Seems like suffering just hangs around these days, doesn’t it? We’re living in wild times. Angry people, tired people, scared people and all the people really just trying their best to do their best. Aren’t we all really just trying our best? Trying to navigate this pandemic life as best we can…
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