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Continue reading →: Every Moment ProductiveEndless productivity and self-improvement can be an exhausting idol. But what’s the antidoe?
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Continue reading →: Where’s Your Faith?Reading the Gospels is still a bit tricky for me, I won’t lie. Jesus’ words often come in terse questions or statements. It’d be so easy to read Jesus as exasperated with the disciples, even contemptuous*, like a grumpy parent asking a forgetful child, “Where is your brain?” But I’m…
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Continue reading →: Living with the ImpossibleI can’t get enough of the Peaceable Kingdom. Give me all the art, all the songs, all the happy moments of holy imagining perfect shalom. Peace with God, peace with our bodies, peace with our neighbors, peace among the nations, peace in and on and through the entire creation. My mother-in-law…
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Continue reading →: Coming Up for AirHope for the Sojourn + A New Way to Read “O Star of Wonder, Give my daughter the gift of wonder. The gift of a curious soul. The gift of not needing all the answers. Spare her the suffocation of closed-mindedness and the loneliness of arrogance.” — Shannon K. Evans, Feminist…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: “Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From” by Meredith Miller“Healing from faith” takes a long time. In fact, I’d say my entire adult life thus far (getting ever closer to 40) has been UNlearning things I’d ingested in my growing-up years. Slowly letting go of shame and self-loathing about who I am and fear that God is punitive and…
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Continue reading →: No Matter How I Feel, Pt. 2
I found this in my drafts as a Part 2 to this post from 2020. This was also written in 2020 while we were looking for our first home, and, wouldn’t you know it, it feels like a good day to post Part 2 to a post about how God…
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Continue reading →: The Kingdom of God…In My House.
I’ve learned to manage my expectations for ‘special days’ over the years. Sometimes a Christmas will be full of grief or homesickness, not joy or laughter. Sometimes a birthday will be spent like any other day, minus a few extra text messages. Sometimes, a Thanksgiving will be spent home sick…
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Continue reading →: Keep Numb, And Carry On
A few years ago I heard someone relate that there are all kinds of things genetic testing can tell us these days. Things like ‘you are super likely to get such-and-such disease or unlikely to live past this age UNLESS you make some huge lifestyle change.’ In the same anecdote,…
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Continue reading →: God as Mother
The Bible uses countless pictures, stories, and illustrations to help us understand the fullness of who God is – partially because none of them, in and of themselves, can fully capture His character, what He’s like, and how He operates. So as a quick review, a few of the ways…
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Continue reading →: Lust Is a Women’s Topic, Too (for FamilyLife.com)If lust, porn and fantasies are men’s topics, women who struggle in these areas may wonder, “What in the world is wrong with us?”
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Hi, I’m Laura
I live, work and write at the intersection of mental health, theology, and healthy relationships — whether it be in our homes with our kids, the workplace or elsewhere.
I’m a wife and mom, mental health guide, parent coach, writer, and life-long learner. I love leaning into becoming more fully human and helping others do the same.
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