Christians: Say "I Don't Know" More Often
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“They keep coming up all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up.” (LM Montgomery)
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"Self Care" and Self Care
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“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?” J.M. Barrie
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Why I Wanted To Be A Mother
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Not a persuasion piece on why anyone else "should want," but a personal testimony on why I *wanted* to be a mother before I was one. “And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you- I am at rest with you- I have come home.” (Dorothy L. Sayers)
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The Importance of Romance's Start
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In-between "me" and "him and then the "us" was a time where our lives merged. The first memories of us as us. This is a sacred, living, continued stage that should take you "there" as often as possible.
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How To Care For Others Going Through Hardship
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"We must bless without wanting to manipulate. Without insisting that everything be straightened out right now. Without insisting that our truth be known. This means simply turning whoever it is we need to bless over to God, knowing that God’s powerful love will do what our own feeble love or lack of it won’t." (Madeleine L’Engle)
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Dream Well vs. Dream Big
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I cringe a little when "people" insist we need to be dreaming BIG. In relation to size, only. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” (Eleanor Roosevelt) Some GOOD dreams may have large ramifications and ideas, and that is beautiful. But other good dreams are deliciously simple. Dream well!
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Full of Thanks
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On paying attention and being grateful! "It all matters. That someone turns off the lamp, says hello to the invalid, listens to the repeated tale, folds the abandoned laundry, plays the game fairly, acknowledges help, gives credit, says goodnight, resists temptation, wipes the counter... What is most beautiful, is least acknowledged. What is worth dying for is barely noticed." L. McBride
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Asking Questions
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Thinking through the importance of "ask, and it will be given to you." Starting with these words from Fred Rogers:"In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers."
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Compassion
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Primarily dwelling in the last two chapters of scripture, Revelation 21 + 22, to frame a view of compassionate hearts, action, and hope as we live, learn, and endure all this life means. How to "suffer with," like the word compassion means.
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Story In Our Lives
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A special joint-episode podcast with Don Shorey from No Mere Mortals. Talking about story in Part 1 right here! Go to "No Mere Mortals" episode #8 for Part 2!
info_outlineOn lines from chapter 29 of "The Screwtape Letters" by CS Lewis": “He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful until it became risky.”