HeyJaredThe Uncommon Normal
Living as a disciple-making-disciple in your neighborhood doesn’t have to feel intimidating, and that is why I started The Uncommon Normal.
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268 - Finitude, Focus, and Other Delicate Musings About Life (opens the original)
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I leave leaves on my writing table–small ones that landed soft on my laptop last time I wrote in my front yard. They nestle next to pumpkin pistachio and it's cheery woodwick flame. Fall. I'm already ready, and it's not even here. There's a comforting conjunction of crisp and cozy that enters with autumn. A deliberate extension of the both/ands that offer hope along with the hard. Links mentioned: Get a FREE, 5-Day Email Course: Turn Your Loneliness into Ripple-Effect Faith in 5 Days. Read the w
267 - How to Find the Intersection of the Sacred and the Mundane (opens the original)
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It's one of those mornings the sunrise peaks as I walk up the hill from my house, trees and power lines and houses towering between me and the sky. I take pictures of the remnants of color gently grazing the horizon when I reach my typical sunrise viewing spot. It's lovely, but not stunning. I stretch and check my shoelaces, but before I hit the record button on my running app, I turn around. I'm glad I do, because God's glory hovers over an ordinary parking lot, and I almost missed it. I'd been
266 - 10 Things You Don't Have to Do Before Inviting Neighbors Inside (opens the original)
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Our brains are always telling us what we have to do, as if there's always more we could– should –be doing. We're continually privy to the guilty nagging, the critical comparison, the insistent whisper of not enough, not enough, not enough. No wonder a missional life gets lumped in with the shoulds . We've been conditioned to stack on extras and deny we're on empty. We assign a grading scale to our hospitality, our servant-heartedness, our neighborliness. We assess our overwhelm as selfishness. W
265 - A Farewell to Summer 2026: How to Go From Good to Better (opens the original)
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Maybe you feel like you're falling into fall too. Barely ready. Rarely at your best. And yet, there's a quiet, undeniable inkling that something is missing. Conversations in driveways and over casual dinners. Cheery hellos and neighbors helping neighbors. Pretense-free, faith-forming honesty. Perhaps this dream has lain dormant for a while as you fit all the necessaries into your day-to-day. Perhaps you've never laid a finger on this desire for an old-fashioned kind of neighborhood, where kids p
264 - The Unusual Gift of Being Inefficient: What a Nail Salon Taught Me About Life (opens the original)
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Maybe you're like me. You use your hands a lot. You type and wash dishes, tie shoelaces, and take contacts out every night. It all feels natural–unless your nails are too long. Then they click-click on the keyboard, and you take five tries to spell one word correctly to answer a text. I'm clueless about nail salon lingo, so after my nails were way outgrown, I found a local spot with all the downtown vibes and nail techs who texted back to answer all my questions. They use gentle products, engage
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