HeyJaredSOAR with Sara Hagerty
Conversations and writing for the hidden and fenced-in … those feeling hampered by life, but who have that niggling thought: “I think I can still find God, here.”
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- Sep 30, 2026
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- Jul 16, 2026
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The God Who Encircles My Story (opens the original)
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"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?" Anne Shirley is on my mind nearly every October 1st and especially so this year, as we’ve lurched from a 100-degree September (unusual for even Kansas City) into October, which keeps whispering to me, “finally … fina… Read more
Capacity: deep, not wide (part 2 of 2) (opens the original)
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They came in one day — one six-hour stretch. Wearing tool belts and carrying cleaning supplies, this small army of friends descended upon our home to help us with the final stages of putting it back together. We’d moved out for a mold remediation project that took the better part of a year, then moved back into a home that had been torn to the studs and rebuilt.Friends hung curtains, repotted plants, disassembled furniture, and assembled new furniture. They cleaned our dusty favorites — the item
Capacity: how does it even grow? (part 1 of 2) (opens the original)
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Misjudged (opens the original)
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I was just entering my senior year of high school — seventeen — when I first felt the sting of another’s blame, their misjudgment of me. I didn’t yet know that one of the most disorienting trails for a human to walk is the one of wrongful blame.A large group of us had gone (in the middle of the night) to spray-paint the hill in front of our rival’s scho… Read more
God, Who Responds to My Surrender (opens the original)
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About once every month or two, I give away one of my favorite things to a frequent commenter on SOAR. I’m sending Daniella Chestnut this tissue box cover this month — I love these things! Daniella, here’s your permission to cry in style 😉 — drop an email to erica(at)sarahagerty.net with your address, and she’ll ship it to you.And every month, I reintr… Read more
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