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Wednesday 19th June 2013
#TellHisStory: How To Know For Sure That You’ll Make it Home
You can learn a lot about life and faith at home plate of a small-town ball diamond on a warm June night in Iowa. It was just a game of kickball — a game that had spontaneously arisen. It was just after we were clearing the picnic tables, and just before the town street lights...
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Tuesday 18th June 2013
Featured #TellHisStory Writer: Kimberlee Conway Ireton
Copycat Susan Patron, Newbery Award-winning author of The Higher Power of Lucky, once said the best piece of writing advice she’d ever received was to choose a book she loved and write it. “The book I wished I’d written,” she said, “was Sarah, Plain and Tall, so I got out my copy and started ...
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Monday 17th June 2013
When You Want to Throw in the Towel
It’s all looked a little impossible lately. It’s not just the lists and the stacks and the deadlines, though there are plenty of those. There’s more: people we love hurt. We hurt, heart-deep. Friends are staring down mean diagnoses and long roads and uncertain tomorrows. Lydia ...
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Friday 14th June 2013
When You Feel Like You Don’t Fit
It’s so easy for me to think of a hundred ways why someone could do this better. That’s what I was thinking when a woman was trying to fit the microphone headset over my ear. It wasn’t fitting right. And the audience was waiting as we fiddled with that contraption. “It ...
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Wednesday 12th June 2013
#TellHisStory: How To Get the Most out of Your Summer Vacation
I prop my feet on the rim of the boat, with a fishing pole resting between bare toes — even though Dad has told me since I was ten years old that no one’s ever going to catch a fish with her feet. If Dad sees me trying to achieve the impossible with my toes,...
Women Still With Us by Lisa
Unfinished Stories