The commercial is right, “life comes at you fast.” And we can’t always control what comes our way. We have two choices when we find ourselves between a rock and hard place. Cut and run, or face it head on. When I was fresh out of Ohio State and hired on for my dream job – it involved traveling – life was grand. Three months into my training, a horrible awful thing happened. I was hit with fear. Really bad fear, anxiety, panic, you name it. Now this was back in, well, another decade, and things like this weren’t classified as they are now. I sort of understood how and why it was happening, but had no clue how to get rid of it. Except Jesus. One of the side […]
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Focus on the Facts
Cancer A death in the family A house fire A tragic accident A baby’s birth A new job The “phone call” from a publisher… We all have those “inciting incidents” in our lives that change everything. From that moment on, our road veers from its previous course, the landscape changes and we’re venturing into unknown territory. It’s easy to feel scared. Alone. And, if we let the trees and unfamiliar surroundings overwhelm us, we can feel lost, and tell ourselves that God has abandoned us. We’re going to be talking this week in MBT about the “Inciting incident” – that moment in the life of our hero when everything changes. But as we focus today on our own “inciting incidents” I thought I’d share something with you I got from […]
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I love watching the Oscars. I’m not sure why…maybe it’s the dresses, or seeing actors out of their movie roles, in “real” life (like television could be termed real!). I especially love seeing the “behind the scenes” folks pick up their awards (like the make-up people, and the sound techs!)…you can tell they’re all gussied up for the event, but that they spend a lot of time in blue jeans and t-shirts. Most of all, I like to imagine what these actors lives are like behind the scenes. What they had for breakfast. What they’re reading. How many outfits they tried on before the event. Maybe I’m weird, but I want to know how their life resembles mine. This week, we’ll be talking about Storyworld – and more specifically, anchoring […]
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I admit, I don’t feel very beautiful today. My nose looks like a tomato, and is nearly as tender, my eyes are bloodshot and watery, my voice sounds like I’m talking through a toilet paper roll holder. I have a cold. I’m moving slowly. With moans. Through layers of fog and grogginess, with the aid of cold medicine. I’m even a little crabby. But my son doesn’t see that. He sees a mom who made him pie for lunch. My husband sees a woman who made it out into below-freezing weather to watch their son play basketball. My daughter sees the mom who let her ask a boy to the upcoming dance. They think I’m pretty good looking. But even they don’t matter, because, well, Ps 45:10-12 says: Listen, O […]
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