faith
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on being real
do you all know glennon doyle melton (MEET HER HERE)? she’s amazing. she’s a warrior. i love reading anything she has to say. i wish i could meet her someday, perhaps she’ll google her name and find her way to my blog! she’s real. she’s unashamed. she is glorifying God and speaking truth… “we’re not often permitted to tell the truth in everyday life. there is a small set of words and reactions and pleasantries we are allowed to say, like, “i’m fine, and you?” but we are not supposed to say much of anything else, especially how we are really doing. we find out early that telling the whole…
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refinement
there are seasons of life when we walk through storms. i have learned that it is a beautifully messy process in which God refines us. it’s like being thrown into the fire to burn off the impurities only to be pulled out even more beautiful and worthy than before. “Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.” (Isaiah 48:10). it is so hard to understand suffering and i don’t try to understand the “why” anymore, instead it makes much more sense to ask “what now.” ten years of watching innocent children suffer and die from a terrible disease taught me…