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Where Do We Get More Love-Fueled Courage?

  We need you fully present, fully awake.   We need light-bearers, God-bearers, Kingdom-bringers, hope-servers.   We are hungry for your glad tidings shouted from mountaintops, whispered into smartphones, wrapped around the shoulders of the widow sitting hands-folded in the…

Six Things I learned this January 2016

These pics above are from both December and January. You’ll forgive me. I loved the snow theme. We spent much of our January on the road. College of Bishops meeting in Florida. Reading, PA with family while Andrew was in…

Our 2014 Move: The Great Silence is Over

I can’t write while I’m moving. I can surf Zillow for our future, sketch plans of backyard gardens, move furniture in my mind. I jot down new recipes and pin color schemes. Before I can make sense of the rest of…

Encouragement 101: Don’t Give Up

I see it in their eyes, the fast deflate.   They had just pried opened their ribs and shown their blood-pulsing hearts to a primetime audience of millions…and they were not picked.   And it is here that a decision…

Sabbath playfulness

May you enjoy a Sabbath full of letting go of heavy things.  Play with color. Dance. Lie down on the carpet and listen to a gorgeous piece of music. Walk through the neighborhood feasting on the flowers pushing up. Perhaps…

Why I Write

It has tugged and pulled at me all day, that question Emily Wierenga was wrestling with: the why of writing. Why do I continue to push the Publish button and send out small earth-filled offerings.   Why DO I write?  …

The Practical Art of Being Renewed

Every Weekend at a Thirst for God we will be encouraging you, our fellow pilgrims,  to develop a practice of intentional Sabbath.  Both of us have learned rest and renewal doesn’t just happen, it is prayed for, invited, and planned for. …

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