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What powers our work when it's no longer about addiction to achievement?

I don't know if this is a season of sweetness or one of sadness. But I'm learning that neither last forever.

your world will never be small if you love to read, because you can be anyone, anywhere, at any period in history. My

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

When Life is Well say THANK YOU & CELEBRATE, and when life is Bitter say THANK YOU & GROW.

Be very careful that you are not giving yourself to a pale imitation of life with Christ - life about Christ, or life generally near to Christ.

We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day.

Thank you, God, for the things you heal, the things you redeem, the things you refuse to leave just as they have been for what seems like forever.

Recipes are how we learn all the rules, and cooking is knowing how to break them to suit our tastes or preferences.

I've learned that in many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.

We decide where the time goes. There's so much freedom in that, and so much responsibility.

You cannot taste the oil until you pour out the vinegar.

Great art says the things we wished someone would say out loud, the things we wish we could say out loud.

Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.

If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.

What I found, though, is that is you're not chasing one fantasy, you're chasing another.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

one of the chief aspects of mothering is prayer,

When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

Some of the most life-shaping decisions you make in this season will be about walking away from good-enough, in search of can't-live-without.

These things can either strip us down to the bone and allow us to become strong and honest,

The problem is that the worldview I've chosen has melted like butter. I had a plan, and the plan is gone.

Stop. Right now. Remake your life from the inside out.

But this is what I've learned the hard way: what people think about you means nothing in comparison to what you believe about yourself.

Live with hope and courage and lived instead a long season of whining, self-indulgence, and fear.

No one lives out an exciting calling without just plunging forward at some point, full of fear and uncertainty.

Sometimes it helps to get outside our problems and stick our fingers into someone else's problems for a while.

sometimes the very best thing to do, I find, is to turn off the news and keep writing our own stories and lullabies.

Food is a language of care, the thing we do when traditional language fails us, when we don't know what to say, when there are no words to say.

To pray is to say that there is more than I can see, and more than I can do. There is more going on than meets the eye.

Your pain doesn't define you. Your failures don't define you. Your createdness defines you. Christ in his goodness defines you".

OPPORTUNITIES TO build friendship and community don't always come at the most convenient times, but we have to grab them when we get the chance.

Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are.

He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. - Psalm 18:16

When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.

I'm learning that both body and soul require more tenderness and attentiveness than I had imagined.

I want to celebrate in the face of despair, dance when all we see on the horizon is doom.

When we, any of us who have been transformed by Christ, tell our own stories, we're telling the story of who God is.

Or it can be the reason we use to justify our anger and the sharp tones in our voices for the rest of our lives.

Life is painful, and we carry with us so much disappointment and heartbreak. But I'm fighting to save some space inside me where I can create hope.

When Life is Well say THANK YOU & CELEBRATE, and when life is Bitter say THANK YOU & GROW.

When I write, I can see things that I can't otherwise see, and I feel things that I can't otherwise feel.

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.

I have a truly manic commitment to leftovers. I'll eat the same thing eight meals in a row, just so it doesn't go to waste.

when you do what you love with people who love the same thing, something is born into your midst and begins to connect you.

Live. I want to be present and whole and have nothing to hide, no excuses to be made, because I did my best, and because that's enough.

In my experience, you can never go wrong with flowers and food, even when someone insists that there's nothing at all you can do.

Sometimes the darkest parts of us can be our teachers in ways that our sweeter qualities never could.

you just have to take one step, and that when you do, the next one will appear.

Oh, the quiet moments alone with God I sacrificed in order to cross a few things off the to-do list I worshiped.

Something has to get you back to prayer, and in my experience, the surest thing in either case is desperation.