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Thank you God for giving me the guidebook that glorifies humility, that condones missteps, that grants forgiveness to those who make mistakes. Help me take the higher road. Help me treat others how you would treat them. Give me a love for your people that is after your own heart. Give me the strength and eyes to grow in love. Give me the courage to return to you after every fall and every fail. Thank you for being my companion, often quiet, but with a steady presence that is felt, that reassures. Truly I am dust. Help me make you ...

The political climate continues to be crazy and while fraternal correction IS a good thing, it is sometimes hard to know when it is appropriate and how to best deliver it. In these courageous conversations I want to show humility, openness to learning and dialogue, and charity while also wanting to work for justice where it is hard. Justice is hard when the decision on what is just is not agreed upon. Recently we had another killing, this time of a human being who of course is precious to God (as are all humans) but who also spoke to dehumanize ...

I made the long trip from Austin and Dallas and back this week with the kids and had a loooot of time to reflect. I've been making this trip since college over 20 years ago. Some things are the same (walls of semi trucks, slow left land drivers) and some different (75 mph speed limit woohoo). I remember when I was a student praying that I wouldn't get in a car accident because I wanted to marry my then boyfriend. Then we were married and I had the reprieve of getting to sit passenger side and read/sleep/chill. Driving with the ...