Thoughts on how to find a mentor
Life is about walking together toward Good. But if it had been up to me to go out and find a mentor, I might still be looking.
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Ways to support a family in distress
Unexpected losses, grief, or ongoing pain can set a family reeling. How can extended family and friends offer practical support during times of distress?
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How I am making it through
I’d like to share a few of the things that are helping me walk with Jesus toward healing. Any beauty or goodness in this story is entirely because of Him.
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Lent: what I’m giving up and adding in
I immediately started thinking high and holy. Giving up selfishness? Giving up complaining? Giving up worry, or losing my temper?
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What does it matter?
No matter what we do, we will always know someone who does it bigger or braver. Certainly if we had known it would burn like fire, we would have stepped away from the hellish abyss.
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The Great Stink Bug Sermon
Brothers and sisters, the moral of that story is here in a clamshell. And also, this is the only time you’re going to see a picture of my toilet online.
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Wee hour wakefuls
The hum of a white-noise fan upstairs
The purr of a lone car going by
The sound of my own cough
Toasters and coasters and give us this day
We have been ferried up, up, up the excruciating climb, full of dread and horror. Now we creep over the edge and hang poised.
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In which I attempt to love my enemy
How do you work closely with people you distrust, for days and months on end? What if your generosity is enabling them to keep failing? Or, God forbid, to succeed?
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In which I arise today
This is the stage that all of Shari’s thinking blog readers have been dreading for years, when her humor and good sense desert her and she disintegrates into dramatic, navel-gazing grief for weeks on end.
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