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Questioning where the joy is supposed to be in being a Christian? Or not sure who God is and are cautiously curious? All are welcome here.
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The pain of Eden (opens the original)
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A few nights ago I tearfully sat through the 9/11 documentary on Netflix. It’s important to understand our country’s history, regardless of the ache served along with it. I was only 4 years old, but it still burns in my memory: my family huddled around a small hotel TV-screen. Tears shed. Eyes glued as the horrifying details made the world halt. Although I certainly didn’t understand the totality of what was happening, I sensed the heaviness. The rippling effects of that fateful day still rumina
What is the meaning of a Wednesday? (opens the original)
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Wednesdays generally look like all other Wednesdays. Of course there are times when there’s variance, but it’s few and far between. For most of us, Wednesdays are a bit repetitious.Perhaps we don’t even know what day it is. Maybe our days blur into one giant Wednesday.No matter how diverse our lives appear from one another, we seem to share this experience the longer we sit on earth: being swallowed in the monotony.We live for our upcoming vacation, the end of the week, the next exciting life st
We are clams (opens the original)
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God can often feel so frustratingly far away. His otherness isn’t always beautiful, but bothersome. We may feel the strains of our human limitations in a way that feels like God is playing a cruel trick on us. He creates us, invites us to wonder at His beauty, but then limits our view of Him. How can our restricted lens of Him be good?This question comes clearer into frame when life doesn’t go as we expect. Where is God’s goodness when we’re drowning in unforeseen debt? Where is His goodness in
Dare to wonder (opens the original)
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Even in the most mature Christian, there are moments where we become bored of God. Certainly it’s not for lack of effort–or perhaps even if it were, shouldn’t He be dazzling enough to garner our attention?For some of us, this statement is very off-putting. Of course we’re not bored of God, it feels blasphemous even to say. We may well reflect on if we always turn to our Bibles, with eager anticipation for what the pages will reveal about Him. Or, if our prayers are a form of relational discourse
Living on the less-green side of the lawn (opens the original)
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Lately, I’ve been wondering what it means to expect things out of life and how it correlates to our enjoyment in it. Each of us presume something or another–whether it’s for the world to operate kind, fair, or even cruel or disappointing. Our experiences eventually shape what we grow to expect from future ones. Of course, this is different from how we think life should operate. But perhaps life fails us over and again, so that we come to learn disappointment as an inevitability. It seems we’re u
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