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July 24, 2026

The Work of Healing

Yesterday I had carpal tunnel surgery, so I’m feeling a little sore today. 🩹 This surgery was a long time coming. I’d been experiencing symptoms for more than a decade,...

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September 14, 2022

The Picture of Perfect Contentment

You can learn so much from observing animals. The other day I was snuggling my pup, Minnie, and she just seemed to be the picture of perfect contentment. But isn’t...

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November 6, 2020

Overcoming Fear Through Song

I was listening to an old worship song we used to sing at my old church in Troy, MI (goodness it made me feel nostalgic). It’s “Made Me Glad” by...

"What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else. It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are . . . because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing. It is important to tell our secrets too because it makes it easier . . . for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own . . . "— Frederick Buechner

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