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This week I am privileged to guest post at Revealing the Story, a fresh blog filled with stories written by women with lives just like yours and mine. So head on over to read the rest of this post, “Parenting by Faith: Adolescence” and prepare to be blessed by the rich mix of contributors at this sweet site. Lord, please tell me what to …
Shock gave way to disbelief as I listened to the plans a friend shared with a group of us over coffee. My head swiveled towards her. What? I couldn’t have heard her right . . . Without warning, she’d removed me from a position of trust and replaced me with someone she didn’t know well. It didn’t make sense. She …
4 tips to help us “speak the truth in love” God’s way.
“Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing . . . must come between it and the beloved person.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer I sat working on a client’s nails one afternoon as she recounted her recent separation from her husband, Gary. “We’ve just . . . grown apart. Gary’s moving down south. He met …
Words are a powerful force for good or evil. Words can either build up or tear down, create a new relationship or kill an old one. And we all possess them–a whole arsenal full. The question is: How will we use our words? When my daughter was young, she had a friend at our Christian school who antagonized and …
I climbed into my car after meeting with a friend, my heart a jagged, gaping wound. Everything I thought I knew about friendship collapsed. In the weeks since, God has been, bit by bit, stitching the gash closed. And with each pierce of the needle and draw of the thread, I’m learning–perhaps for the first time–the true meaning of friendship. …
