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What God’s Awesome Grace Can Do: Here’s My Testimony
My grace story is my testimony. It’s a testimony of what Jesus can do, how He can take someone’s mess and turn it into a beautiful message. It’s a message of radical love and radical empathy. My life has been made up of a million little testimonies. I just didn’t acknowledge God in them throughout my whole life. Instead, I chalked…
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The Artist’s Showcase: Christ in Us, a beautiful glimpse into Eternity
How does God use art to display Christ in us? Eternity? That’s what God put on my heart recently. Photography is something I just love. It’s exciting to play with light and angles, to experiment, create scenes, or to capture candid photos at the right moment– to capture a moment in time and preserve it. And when someone orders a…
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To the adventurer: what my anxiety taught me about faith
I’ve always loved adventure. Where others see obstacles, I see opportunity– sometimes, to a fault. See: local 18-year-old girl comes near-death during a long-boarding accident. But suffering from anxiety made me feel stuck. Nothing helped. That is, until I found freedom in faith. Anyway, as a young child, I was the one who would convince the other kids to take…
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I Wrote this for you: to Women living alone in quarantine
Last night I went for a long walk through my neighborhood, down to the seawall and back. It was the first time I’d taken a walk by myself since the beginning of the Coronavirus quarantine. As a woman living alone in such an uncertain time, I’m finding new ways each day to become a better version of myself. The sun…
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If You Feel Lost I Wrote This For You
If you feel lost, I wrote this for you… “So, what do you do if you don’t know what you want–where do you go?” You decide that you want happiness, and then you go wherever you find that is. You find it in the rattling of your bones when you hear a good song; you find it in the tiny…
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We are God’s amazing poetry: how God repurposes what we yield
In our last post, we talked about God the ultimate Creator, about His creativity and ours. This week, I want to talk about God the Author and how He naturally repurposes our past in His writing of our lives from beginning to end. Isn’t He just the most amazing all-encompassing artist? Seriously… I love poetry. Some will say it’s an…
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Wisdom plus creativity: what is God’s purpose for your gift?
What’s God’s purpose for me? It’s a BIG question. But, God is big. And I believe God likes questions, and I believe He takes pleasure in answering ours– on His time. I feel like I’ve been asking this a lot lately, which is why I want to write about it. I was recently asked what my passion was. The initial…
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What happens when we radiate like Moses: our first love testimonies
Testimonies are what I call love stories. What better time than the same month of Valentines Day falls, to talk about their power. As Christians, Valentines Day takes on a whole new meaning. In light of Valentine’s Day– a day dedicated to celebrating love– I started thinking about the different “loves” I’ve had throughout my lifetime: boyfriends, best friends, family…
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Turning 27: A message on love, faith and perseverance
I’m 27 and only now understanding what real faith and perseverance actually looks like. If you feel lost, I wrote this for you; if you’ve recently had a birthday, I wrote this for you. I rang in my 27th year here on Earth stuffing my face with my father’s famous baked ziti and a sweetly layered bucket of trifle that…
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How to let go: when holding on hurts more
I am finding that this season of my life is demanding I learn how to let go. Things I wasn’t prepared to let go of: a job, a comfy, codependent relationship, a sense of security, the ease of grocery shopping without covering my face… But I’m giving in a little more each day. And by “giving in,” I mean I’m…
