Why Are #Millennials Leaving the #Church? I interview @rachelheldevans on why she & so many others leave (and come back) https://www.guideposts.org/positive-living/why-are-millennials-leaving-the-church
Category Archives: Uncategorized
#Lent Day 13: Fast Stinginess. “Seek an opportunity to be irrationally lavish toward someone who cannot possibly return the favor. Give because you love. Give without letting reason ration out your love in stingy portions.” –40 Days of Decrease by Alicia Britt Chole. I’m having trouble with this fast because I’m
The Forgotten Girls Who Left the South and Changed History
The Forgotten Girls Who Left the South and Changed History karnythia: angelsscream: @karnythia Ooh thanks!
#Lent Day 8: Fasting from Fixing It. “When you’re in pain, the most hurtful offerings come from those who try to fix it with platitudes. Such clumsy attempts to fix someone else’s pain reflect the probability that we are uncomfortable facing our own. So today, fast fixing things. Let the broken
#Lent Day 7: Fast from a Meal. “Today I invite you to experience what some refer to as a Bridegroom fast, where the ache to eat an earthly meal serves to kindle an ache to partake of what the Apostle John called the “wedding supper of the Lamb” (Revelation 19:9). During the
#LENT DAY 6: Fasting from speeding through grief. I’m loving how these daily fasts fit into my actual life! Just yesterday I was thinking about how it’s time to pick myself up and get back to happy and today’s fast in the 40 Days of Decrease book I’m working through
#Lent2016 Day 3: Fast from collecting praise. I’m working through the #lent book 40 Days of Decrease by Alicia Britt Chole, and today’s #fast is not to deflect praise through self deprecation (as I often do,) but to redirect praise to #God, like John the Baptist did. “John decreased so
These are the qualities I’m attracting to myself for #NoRegrets Day 2 of #Lent2016: Reciprocity, emotional support, to be loved in the way I ask for it, safety, security, joy, understanding
Lent 2016: Giving Up Regret
I’m reading through 40 Days of Decrease this lent, fasting something new each day. Today’s fast is regret. The author Alicia Britt Chole writes, “When fresh beginnings are stalked by the memories of stale endings, a sickly substance can steal our strength: regret. Regret empties anticipation, flattens dreams, and suffocates hope,
“My child, please remember, you are but dust and to dust you shall return. Go in peace.” These were the words whispered over me by a Catholic priest at my first AshWednesday service. What perspective for my hurt ego, my broken heart, my disappointments and setbacks…they’re all but dust. And so