183 - How to Find the God Who Answers When You’re Distressed
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Release Date: 01/07/2025
189 - This Is What Changes When We Know God by Name
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
It begins to connect as I pause at the word ‘name’ at the end of Psalm 91: because we know God by name–by His many names–we know TO call on Him, HOW to call on Him, and WHAT to call Him. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up 2. Read the written version of this episode 3. I’m taking Mary Demuth’s , searching for names of God as I read like it’s some sort of treasure hunt. Never though to look for God in this way until I began journaling through Ann Voskamp’s . 4. Get a...
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188 - Three Unique Ways To Repeat What You Need To Believe
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
This morning, wide awake way too early, I pondered how there’s nothing else I’d rather have running through my head when I can’t sleep than the weighty glory of God Himself. Unless I proactively tell my thoughts where to dwell, they wander willful and easily distracted. I lean into lies that incite fear or unworth rather than lean on the One who knows every tender hope and unspoken prayer. Maybe that’s you too. And you’re ready to change the string of what-if’s and self-belittling on repeat inside your head. Ready to root deep in what you need to believe: That God’s good in the...
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187 - How to Find Hope for Your Anxious Heart
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
These are the days of appointments and answers I don’t like. Of whispering hope in a waiting room to one anxious heart. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up 2. Read the written version of this episode 3. I’m taking Mary Demuth’s , searching for names of God as I read like it’s some sort of treasure hunt. Never though to look for God in this way until I began journaling through Ann Voskamp’s . 4. I’m also reading an early copy of Ann Voskamp’s newest book, . And...
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186 - Soul-Sister Friendship: What We Crave + How to Find It
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
It’s a hopeful whisper: soul-sister friendship. Isn’t that what we long beneath the obligatory “I’m good! How are you?” and mustered-up smiles and silent sighs? We want something more than surfacy talk about movies and weather, car lines and school projects. More than flighty friendship that unravels over bent feelings and assumptions. Perhaps your heart-felt prayer is not for more friends but deeper friendship. The kind that welcomes your crying face into the chaos of the kitchen and hugs you with flour-dusted hands. The kind that pauses and makes space, knows before you say...
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185 - This Is What Happens When God Walks Here Too
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
How would you talk with God if you knew He was walking around in your house? I recently read a mandate God had spoken to the Israelites through Moses: “Treat your camp as a sacred place because the Eternal your God will be walking around in it” (Deut. 23:14, The Voice). And I wonder, what would it change if we knew how paper-thin is the distance between God and us? If we knew He was right here when we’re worn from wonted rhythms? When loss hits and questions rise? When we have to make wretched-hard decisions in this busted-up world? Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your...
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184 - How to Name Inseparable Ingredients of a Never-Changing God
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
I’m writing by candlelight while walking but I can’t stop. Here, another name. There, two more. I’m chasing the God I’m finding as I read. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up 2. Read the written version of this episode 3. I’m taking Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading challenge (and you can too!). Sign up . 4. Ann Voskamp’s is the one I’m using, and her questions gives space to record who God is, where we are in relation to God, and more. I find it dovetails...
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183 - How to Find the God Who Answers When You’re Distressed
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
You know that dismantling way a verse in Scripture can seem like it’s just for you? How you feel seen through in an instant by the kind gaze of Jesus? That was me on day three of a 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge—overcome by “the God who answers me whenever I am in distress and who is with me wherever I go” (Gen. 35:3, The Voice). Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up 2. Read the written version of this episode 3. Psalm 63 by Justin Rizzo. Watch on YouTube . 4. Get the Song I Play on...
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182 - This Is How to Start the Year 2025 Out Right
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Maybe New Year’s Eve feels like a celebration of endings. We get to bury what didn’t do well or go right and start over. Plant fresh seeds and forget the ones that never grew. I get it. It’s wearying caring for seeds that haven’t sprouted yet. And your heart just needs a break, your lungs a moment to breathe. But here, on the cusp of all a fresh new year has to offer, I want to share what I’m clinging to for my own unsprouted seeds. Links mentioned: 1. Get 200 Word of the Year ideas PLUS monthly reflection sheets to amplify your growth . 2. To get a short, doable tip in your...
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181 - A Christmas Blessing to Help You See What Matters
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
In the midst of tinsel and torn paper tomorrow, may we remember the greatest gift ever wrapped is a baby in swaddling clothes. May our hearts thump with the excitement of a child when we behold Him, fully God even as a babe. Links mentioned: 1. Get 200 Word of the Year ideas PLUS monthly reflection sheets to amplify your growth . 2. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up 3. Read the written version of this episode
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180 - How to Find Your Way Through a Silent Midnight
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Sometimes you go looking for a word of the year, and sometimes it finds you–like a cat who adopts you first or a word nestled into Ann Voskamp’s Sacred Prayer journal that stills your heart. And you know, without scouring word lists or weighing options or praying long for clarity, that the Hebrew word korban is your one word for 2025. Links mentioned: 1. Get 200 Word of the Year ideas PLUS monthly reflection sheets to amplify your growth . 2. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up 3. Read the...
info_outlineYou know that dismantling way a verse in Scripture can seem like it’s just for you? How you feel seen through in an instant by the kind gaze of Jesus?
That was me on day three of a 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge—overcome by “the God who answers me whenever I am in distress and who is with me wherever I go” (Gen. 35:3, The Voice).
Links mentioned:
1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here.
2. Read the written version of this episode HERE.
3. Psalm 63 by Justin Rizzo. Watch on YouTube HERE.
4. Get the Song I Play on Repeat playlist from the resource library HERE.
5. I’m taking Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading challenge (and you can too!). Sign up HERE.
6. Ann Voskamp’s Sacred Prayer journal is the one I’m using, and her questions gives space to record who God is, where we are in relation to God, and more. I find it dovetails beautifully with Mary’s challenge.