How trust is earned
Feb 03, 2025
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If you've been married long enough, you will have experienced both: forgiveness and trust issues. These are the hills and valleys of the marriage journey—inescapable, even for the holiest among the ringed ones. Yes, if you’re married, you are ringed. That symbol of eternal commitment on your left ha...
Did change break you?
Jul 26, 2023
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Have you considered that it doesn't take trauma or drama to break a person? Sometimes a loved one's relentless subtle messages that "you should change" tear away pieces of you in the same way as a naughty boy might strip the bark from a tree, oblivious that he might kill it!
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Have you noticed people don't sin the same?
Jul 19, 2023
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Do you ever look at what someone has gotten themselves into and think, "I'd never do that!" You may have a blind spot when it comes to your own shadowy side or it may be true that you'd never do such a thing, but it's also likely that the other person would never make the mistakes you make.
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How to lose "friends" and disappoint people
Jul 17, 2023
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Yes, I'm deliberately spoofing the all-time bestseller, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦. Nothing wrong with the book, except if we truly believe the lie that we can copy and paste some suggested behaviors and produce a predictable outcome in our relationship with anyone. The lie is:
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Those people who hang over the fence and why I want to be like them
Jul 11, 2023
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My husband did a fine pruning job on the hydrangea in the corner of our yard last fall, hence the spray of off-white florets this summer. Driving home yesterday, I wondered what was proper pruning etiquette when it comes to prolific, wild flowering like what we have going on here—and a fenc...
A lesson from a gecko
Feb 22, 2022
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Allow me to take a step out of my mom suit into my office suit for today’s musing about grace in the workplace. It’s been bothering me for a while that there is a chasm between workplace values and the ones we applaud when we’re in our “spiritual mode.” Could we as Christian business folk be dedicat...