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It’s always a risk to open your home, particularly when you have no idea who will come! Last Saturday eleven of us gathered together to watch the (in)rl webcast, share stories, laugh, and eat a lot of brunch food. I’ve come to the conclusion that hanging with folks in person ...
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Whew, that’s a long post title! And looking back over my blogging journey, I’ve written a LOT of posts. This is post 2,500. My first post went live on October 5, 2004 when my blog was called Relevantblog and I was Relevantgirl. I initiated it on the soil of southern ...
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When you’re wrong, apologize. When I’ve lived my life that way, I’ve experienced the deepest, sweetest freedom. (Click to tweet this.) When I’ve stiff-necked my resolve and dug in my heels, not wanting to bend the knee or will, I didn’t like the girl staring back at me in the ...
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I have the privilege and permission to share this very difficult and amazing email with you from Candace. You can also hang out with her on Facebook here. And here she is, the beauty behind the beautiful words. Before you read this, Candace wanted me to remind ...
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Here’s a story that proves the adage, You Can’t Judge a Book By It’s Cover (or spine for that matter). So I ordered a book. It’s one I’d had on my Kindle, but loved it so much, I wanted in my hot little hands because she teaches how to make ...
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I grew up in a world where I didn’t feel safe. Sexual abuse at age five, three divorces, the death of my father, drug abuse permeating my childhood neighborhood—many of these traumas I kept quiet. For years. I lived under that unwritten, unspoken mandate that to tell was to betray. ...
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It’s been forty-one years since those bully boys stole my body, mind, and bits and pieces of my shattered soul. They posed as interested neighbors, ready to help my ancient babysitter. They’d take me off her hands, lessen her load. Which is strange if you knew me back then. I ...
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So women scare me. Irony, though: I have healed through women’s care. Sarah is inviting folks to talk about their favorite women, the ones who have poured into us. She offers the invitation to you, here on her blog. Click over and take a looksee. Link up. To be honest, ...
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It started as a compilation of all my posts on healing from the past. It became a free book for my newsletter subscribers. Then it morphed into a real, live physical book. I’m thrilled with how it turned out. It’s 95 pages of snippets of wisdom, hard won, stolen from ...
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I’d like to introduce you to my friend Sarah Bessey. We went to Haiti together, and we shared a room. (She doesn’t snore!) I learned a lot from her, and I’m so grateful we’ve had the chance to break and share bread, particularly poignant surrounded by poverty. That’s a rare ...