Your family fits. Yes even THAT family

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This is the second of eight Mondays of Everything Fits Even When It Doesn’t. The Everything Fits affirmation is at the end of this post. You can subscribe on the upper right to get the series in your inbox. And if you know someone who would benefit, please share. How bad or dysfunctional does your family [...]

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The crucial question you probably never ask

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Yes this is part of the Everything Fits series. Yay! A bonus and it’s only the first week! Of course you may have only wanted to hear from me once a week. Oh. Okay, I promise to not overdo it on the extras. *   *   *   * A bazillion years ago we [...]

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Everything fits and I’m scared

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A few weeks ago I got the itch to write about something that I realize I believe as deeply as I can believe anything right now; something that is my goal and grid for interpreting every single thought, event, problem, crisis, fear, frustration, dream, joy, and emotion of my life. But now I’m scared because [...]

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Eight Mondays to discover how everything fits

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Two words – usually unspoken – can weigh heavy in your soul. The words? IF ONLY The bad “if only” If only you knew what to do next. If only this hadn’t happened. If only that would change. If only you were a different person. If only they were different. If only you could fix it, [...]

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Stare at this picture to gain confidence in the middle of your worst day

James Tissot

Your confidence begins with something that happened about 2,000 years ago this week. Before Good Friday. Before Easter. It starts with a sentence in John 18: When Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground Well they should fall to the ground – he’s God in a body [...]

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The one change that would make “The Bible” series even more awesome

The change? Cast really old actors to play the really old characters Have Maggie Smith play Abraham’s wife Sarah in episode one. Only make her even OLDER than Violet in Downton, since that’s still younger than Sarah was when she got pregnant. Maybe Betty White would be better. THEN make her have a baby. Same [...]

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What everybody ought to know about risk

You call it risk because you don’t know what will happen, and what does happen could be bad. You don’t like bad. But it could be good! That’s why you take the risk, why you face the fear and make that leap into the unknown. It can all feel so life and death. Some play [...]

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The simple mental picture that will forever change what you expect of God (and yourself)

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If you’re like me, it’s easy to feel swamped, confused, like you’re walking in mud. You dwell on your undone, unfinished stuff. You do all you can in relationships but still experience frustration and misunderstanding. You seem to always put out effort and not get results. You think something is probably wrong with you. If [...]

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So how does God talk to you?

You’re unsure. Discouraged. Doubting. You’re waiting and wondering. How do you know what to do next? You think you know but you’re hesitating. How how does anyone really know anything? How do you think about it? A few words come to mind: Don’t be afraid. You don’t hear the words, you just remember them for [...]

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I HOPE your ice is slowly melting

I HOPE your dead place is coming alive like this dead and discouraged unemployment office in Madrid came alive when a small flash mob materialized. I HOPE you know that just as everything can go horribly wrong in only five minutes, so in five minutes your face can be lifted up. I HOPE you know [...]

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What Lance Armstrong whispered in my ear

I don’t know exactly when I heard it. It was sometime in the last few months when our opinion of him was doing a 360. I heard it again last week when he was with Oprah. Several times I jerked my head expecting to find him right on my shoulder whispering. I mean, it had [...]

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How to pray for a sofa

just a sofa

We’re shopping for a larger sofa. We’re praying about it. Sometimes at furniture stores I see the pilot/co-pilot theater sofas with built-in cupholders and slide-away snack trays. And they massage you. A corner of me wants to give up and veg out in front of the flat-screen on one of those sofas for the next ten years. [...]

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