Category Archives: Spiritual encouragement

Lunch breaks, humility and creativity {Post grad series}

“Never taking a break from very careful thought work actually reduces your ability to be creative.” – Is Lunch a Waste of Time — or a Productivity Booster? One of the things I’ve learned about myself in recent years is … Continue reading

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Book review // The Church Planting Wife

So, I feel like a bit of an impostor writing this review. Lest you think I’ve been keeping some big awesome secret, no we’re not involved in a church plant. And we’re not in church ministry, either. Regardless, I’m SO … Continue reading

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Grateful for 2012

Last year I started a new writing tradition – getting down on paper everything that I was thankful for in the past year before I started thinking about the coming year. Before I started cross-examining the categories of my life and … Continue reading

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Little big things

Sometimes little things actually feel really big. These are some of the big and encouraging little things that are helping me abide, create and work hard this week: Going back to Ragamuffin Gospel, even though I’ve never finished it all … Continue reading

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Compassion doesn’t weaken us {Post grad series}

Sometimes in college, all the causes, all the pain and oppression in the world that I heard about from different organizations and programs, and all the emptiness that I saw in my few weeks overseas, it all felt like too much. And when … Continue reading

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Starting a new series: Post grad

During my last two years of college and my first year out of college, I lived in a big, old house with 5 other house-mates. And sometimes that number fluctuated upwards. Up to 8 girls, in 5 bedrooms, with 2 bathrooms … Continue reading

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