Posts Tagged ‘hope’
Through the Fire
by Judy Cottingham My husband and I never moved throughout our 48 years of marriage. We were planted in our church and careers, raised our children, and developed lifelong friendships. November 8, 2018 turned our lives upside down. The fire in Paradise, CA known as the “Camp Fire” destroyed our home and the entire town in…
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Choosing to have joy is not naively thinking everything will be easy. It is courageously believing that there is still hope, even when things get hard. – MORGAN HARPER NICHOLS Let go: Where do your mind and heart go when things get hard? Do you catastrophize? Are you discouraged? Start over: Choosing joy doesn’t mean…
Read MoreMoving on with hands open and ready for the new
Excerpt from To Pause at the Threshold: Reflections on Living on the Border by Esther de Waal The psalms are the journey songs of the people…. Time and again they raised a fist to God and shouted angrily at him…. They are the songs of a people who were moving away from a known situation…
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