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Forgiving Ourselves: Why It's the Final Knot
When our boys came home from Haiti, I had no idea what I was doing. We went from one to three overnight, and I found myself with three toddlers between the ages of 20 months and 3 years old. It was insane. I look back on that time and there are pockets that I cannot even…
Read MoreThat Thin Line Between Wanting Justice and Holding onto Unforgiveness
We are in the home stretch friends! We are in our fourth and final week of our Untangled Summer Series with our friend, Carey Scott. We’ve walked through tangles of Shame, Fear, and Worthlessness. However, this last tangle is intense, and maybe the toughest of all: UNFORGIVENESS. What stirs up in you when you hear that word?…
Read MoreWhen You Need Some Freedom from the Lie
Several years ago I was in a really hard conversation with a friend. We didn’t see life the same way, and we were trying to work it out. I was in the middle of trying to explain my side of the story when she spoke this to me: “You’re a horrible communicator.” In that moment, I…
Read More"I'm Not Enough" and The Unending Lie of Worthlessness
Welcome to Week 3 of our Untangled Summer Study! Thank you for being here and for doing the hard work and seeking God’s face on all this! It’s been incredible for me to hear from you all and hear how God is loosening the knots…knots that have held some of us for years. YEARS! That’s no…
Read MoreFinding Our True North in the Middle of Fear
Who does this? Who opens up their lives, recounting past hurts and insecurities for all the world to see? Someone who knows there’s HOPE on the other side of all of it, who knows what a God-healed heart looks like, and wants the same others. My friend, Carey Scott shares a story from her latest…
Read MoreWhen Fear Tangles Us Up
“MOM!” It was late, I was getting around for bed and heard one of my sons cry out, so much fear in his voice. Grandma (my awesome mother-in-law who’s visiting) had intercepted the cry and was there, listening as my son explained the spider he’d woke up to right above his head. She was on it,…
Read MoreWhen It's Time for Shame to Go
Today, we’ll hear from Carey’s heart on this idea of shame, a story she shares in her book Untangled. Carey so willingly opens her heart on how she struggled on this one, and how God met her in a very real way…. “Mom, I can’t take it anymore.” I stood up, closed the refrigerator door, and…
Read MoreAn Untangled Summer ~ Welcome to Week One
Welcome to An Untangled Summer! I’m so grateful you are here, so many of you from so many different places! I wish so much we could take just a minute to look around and say a collective hello, but as you sit with your coffee on that side, I’ll grab some over here as well…THANK…
Read MoreBrand New Study Starting Tuesday!
You know what just hit me? 2015 is officially half-way over. What.in.the.world. Remember when you were a teenager and you absolutely lived for school to start, or homecoming or spring break, and it all just seemed to take FOREVER. I remember my junior year of high school hearing one of my friends say, “there’s not enough…
Read MoreWe Interrupt This Summer to Bring You…Rest.
Well, vacation has come and gone, our phones are filled up with fabulous pictures, and the house looks like camping just barfed all over it. My fam just got back from a 10-day tour through the Black Hills, Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. Over TWO-THOUSAND glorious miles with a camper, four kids, and all the chips and…
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