spiritual
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Honest Thoughts about Religious Teachings
Some religious traditions I am questioining: If anything, church should not be a building, but a people, just as the Israelites were, meant to be a light among others. What if church is not a Sunday service, but a group of people who spend time in the world seeing the hurt, lonely, and poor? I Continue reading
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Reflections on Resilience
Resilience is not survival. It’s not a coping mechanism or a one-off decision. Resilience is found in every human being, not to be held against them. Not to toughen the soft ones up or come out on top of others. Resilience is deeply rooted hope. It doesn’t come from platitudes or happy thoughts. It doesn’t Continue reading
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Chronic Illness and Becoming New
It’s so strange to go through such a negative experience and to come to a place of seeing it as the best thing that could have ever happened to me. Don’t get me wrong, I am not advocating for trials in order to grow. I do not wish that on others or myself. AND I Continue reading
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Hearing from God
I wrote this blog post originally for another site. That site called this post unbiblical. I share this with you because it has been my experience as I’ve grown in my faith that God is so much bigger and personal than we can imagine. I don’t see this post as unbiblical, but spiritual and biblically Continue reading
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Future Meditation
God has already gone before and prepared your future. He has laid it all out. Read that again. The One who loves you, the One who holds the universe, who calls you daughter or son, has already made your future. Nothing you do or do not do is going to change God’s future for you. Continue reading
About Me
An obsessive journaler who loves meeting others along their journey and giving them a hand to hold through pieces of writing. I write about the heartbreaks of life and the joys, the ups and downs, and I often learn my greatest lessons and miracles from nature.
Joyful Ruins 