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Seven Songs to Remind Me Who I Am

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Andrea
Seven Songs to Remind Me Who I Am

Today is my 51st birthday. Happy? Some of it has been. It’s been a weird one. A reflective one. And even a bit of a sad one. 51 greets me with a measure of pain and an unknown future like I never could have imagined. But it also ushers in great joy from the good parts.

“Nous prenons le mal pour le bien.” or “We take the bad for the good.” I learned that in Paris earlier this year and I’ve taken it to heart. The bad things that come can be overpowered by the good in my life. Honestly, some of that is the power of positive thinking but mostly, I really do believe it to be true.

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Six Four-Word Prayers for When We Need to Release, Refocus and Reset

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Andrea
Six Four-Word Prayers for When We Need to Release, Refocus and Reset

For several years now, I have worked my way through the book, A Clearing Season, by Sarah Parsons during Lent. I’ve never finished it. Maybe one day I will. But in one particular reading, in one particularly hard season of my life, I read this:

“’Thy will be done’. These may be the most revolutionary words we will ever say. Saying them can change our orientation to life: we put our little boats into a great stream and drop our oars. We lose a bit of our old control over things; we clear the space and allow God to fill it, agreeing to tend whatever growth God engenders.” ~Sarah Parsons, A Clearing Season

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“Songs” That Women Need to Delete from Their Mental Playlist

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Andrea
“Songs” That Women Need to Delete from Their Mental Playlist

I think many thoughts. My brain tends to run on high speed and barrel through my days (and often my nights) like a runaway freight train. My husband can confirm this. Some of my thoughts are good and fine and actually quite brilliant. But many of them are unhealthy.

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