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 weigh…
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What To Do in a Broken and Hurting World
Just two weeks after the birth of Christ, the coming of the King of Peace, and here we are staring our own worst nature straight in the face. Reveling in wounds we’ve allowed to grow and fester because we’ve been burning bridges with each other and we’ve turned away from the Face that commanded us only to love. Traditionally Christians…
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Light in the Darkness
Walking through the darkness feels like the weight of a hundred unanswered prayers pressing down. Ever noticed that life marches on even as time just seems to stand still in the dark? And haven’t we all been walking and yet standing still for a while now? We’ve been walking through this collective struggle, step by step, for nine months now….
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Attachment Heals
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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Finding Rest
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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