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Monthly Archives: April 2017

The Promised Land of Wait Gain

I have lived for over 40 years in the desert. The dry land of diets and weight-loss programs and tips and tactics and shame and binges and self-hate and deprivation. I have been obsessed with the latest diet fad. I have disdained my image in the mirror. I…

Embrace the Wait Gain of the Journey

Waiting for hunger is a tutor to teach us to wait for God. What a gift to learn this important discipline through the thing we’ve struggled with for a lifetime. God doesn’t waste any part of our suffering. He redeems it for good–always. I…

It’s Time to Get Back Up!

I had a few rough days. I thought something amazing was going to happen and it didn’t. I built up my hope and expectations and then was crushed when it didn’t happen. I sobbed like a baby. Proverbs 13:12 says “delayed hope makes the…