Month: May 2026
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Help and Hope: Stop Walking Around the Furnace
Most people pray for God to remove the furnace. Few stop to consider that sometimes God is waiting for us to walk toward it. And if we’re being honest, most of us spend a great deal of our lives trying to avoid discomfort. We avoid difficult conversations, grief, doctor’s appointments, forgiveness, change, we even avoid…
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Life’s Lessons: The Gentle Things Still Matter
Sometimes healing enters our lives with very small paws. I did not fully realize that until recently. After months of hospitals, exhaustion, difficult conversations, uncertainty, grief, sleepless nights, and emotional storms that seemed to arrive one after another without much space in between, I found myself sitting quietly one evening watching a litter of tiny…
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The Healing Arts: When Creativity Becomes a Lifeline
Some of the most creative people I have ever met… were also carrying some of the heaviest burdens. Not always visibly. Not always in ways the world immediately recognized. But quietly, beneath the surface, many of them were navigating things most people around them never fully understood. Things like chronic illness, rare diseases, disability, grief,…
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Peace in the Storm: The Voice That Came at the Right Time
The rain had been falling most of the afternoon, though from inside the hospital it was difficult to tell where one hour ended and the next began. Everything there seemed suspended in artificial light and exhaustion. The halls were too cold, the chairs too stiff, and the silence somehow never truly quiet. Machines hummed. Elevator…
Country Girl Gone City 