Tag: hope
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In It For the Long Run
What would happen if I just didn’t finish the run? But the thought was too blissful – and terrifying – to let linger. I quickly adjusted my shoe and stood once more.
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What’s Your Saturday?
While Scripture pretty much skips from death to resurrection, there’s an important gap between those events. There’s a bridge that connects the agony of Good Friday to the joy Resurrection Sunday. That bridge is Saturday.
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Your River Runs With Love For Me
Somewhere, tucked in my brain, is a folder of childhood memories–chlorinated summer afternoons, breakfasts with dad, and all those 90s Christian songs that I’d sing along to in the backseat.
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What I’ve Learned About Prayer This Year
It’s no mistake that I found my old prayer box when going through my childhood bedroom last week. The little wooden box– a memento from my dad’s earlier mission trip to Honduras– was jam packed with the hopes and fears of a 12-14-year-old girl. Many of the scribbled prayers brought tears to my throat, reminding…
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“Wait, guys! Pause!”
Last week, I was doing some writing in the park behind my apartment when I was interrupted by an intense game of tag. A kid named Sam was not playing very nicely with the others and a democratic young fellow was attempting to restore the peace. Sam was taunting the younger kids, “you can’t catch…
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Reflecting on My College Running Career
Could it be that this train wreck of a college athletic career, was actually salvaged? That, instead of flying off rail, God graciously redirected me and restored what was lost?
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Hope Amidst Brokenness
I can’t believe it’s been three years since I entered partial-hospitalization treatment for anorexia nervosa. Has it really been that long? But also: Was it really that recent? I have little in common with the shell of a girl who was, quite frankly, inches from death’s door. But I remember her. I remember the feeling…
A Grateful Life Lived 