Hope, even when things get hard

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…

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Moving 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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I am about to do something new

For I am about to do something new.    See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?I will make a pathway through the wilderness.    I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. Isaiah 43:19 Let go: Where is your focus? Are you looking back or forward? Are you stuck in the past or grasping God’s hand…

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