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Conversion to Christianity, like Grief, Isn’t Neat and Tidy.

July 29, 2022May 25, 2021

Psychologists talk about the “stages of grief,” and this framework has trickled down into the popular consciousness. First comes denial and disbelief. Next is rage at the loss and the universe in general. After that is bargaining, attempting to somehow …

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Is God the Object of Our Hope—Or Is It Our Healing?

April 22, 2022May 18, 2021

As we have faced my wife, Elizabeth’s diagnosis, different versions of healing promises have popped up everywhere. We have been given several books that implicitly or explicitly make such claims. I have talked to people who struggle deeply with the …

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How the Unpopular Girl Taught Me Jesus’ Love

March 22, 2022October 19, 2020

I’m a therapist. My first client for the day was 16 years old. Her year has been one of bone-aching loneliness as she’s tried to find her place among her peers, hang on to her values, and not seem too …

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Waiting and Grieving with Honesty

May 22, 2020

My husband, Robb had been gone for maybe two weeks when my young boys and I packed up for a trip back to Ohio. I moved to Colorado in my early twenties, and my soul took root right away. My …

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Inviting Pain & Welcoming Grief

July 29, 2022May 14, 2020

Grief requires us to acknowledge and surrender to our throbbing, it is easy to have contempt for this reality and deny its invitation into our lives. I would argue for grief’s essential role in our lives as the 16th-century mystic/poet …

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Springtime Snow and Sad Days

April 16, 2020
Flower under snow

This post originally appeared on the author’s blog on May 21, 2019. Yep. It snowed. Quite a bit, actually. Summer break starts on Friday, the community pools open on Monday, and we are in several inches of snow in Colorado. …

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Grief is the Gift that No One Wants

February 1, 2022January 28, 2020

Let me say this before I say anything else. If you are in a season of grief and loss, nothing I can say will take away the pain that you are experiencing. Nothing. Nor would I want to do that. …

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Surviving the First Year after Losing a Loved One

March 8, 2019

When my kids catch a glimpse of lightning bugs for the first time one summer, they assume they’re battery powered. “Are those little flashlights attached to anything?” they ask. “Those aren’t flashlights,” I reply. “That’s God’s little magic trick. Wanna …

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