by | Faith Lived Out
The more I interact with people in this messy, beautiful, crazy journey called life, the more I experience heartbreak. The more I feel pain and sorrow for those who are hurting.
I sit with women at Esther’s House as they process trauma from their childhood, the broken relationships they’ve endured, the countless nights they spent trying to get high to avoid the pain, never wanting to be known as an addict. My heart hurts.
I sit on the porch with one of my dearest friends, who happens to be my next door neighbor, almost every morning as we have coffee together and solve the world’s problems. Sometimes we talk about how amazing God is. Sometimes we watch the rabbits chasing each other in the yard and laugh. Sometimes we dream about the future. Sometimes we cry as we talk about the hurts from our past and the struggles in our present. Oh.. if I had a penny for every tear that’s been shed on her back porch, I’d be a rich woman.
I get the phone call from a friend who says her loved one has died and my heart hurts again. I hear of another friend who has relapsed. And another who’s left her boyfriend and sits in her heartbreak wondering if she’ll spend the rest of her life alone.
My heart hurts and I say the only thing I think I can say in the moment….
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by | Faith Lived Out, Vlog/Facebook Live
Do you have a friend who is willing to call you up when you’re not living the life God has designed for you?
Are you that friend to someone else?
Proverbs 27:6 says, “Wounds from sincere friends are better than many kisses from an enemy.”
Confrontation isn’t comfortable, but we’re called to be brave. To confront. To love.
by | Faith Lived Out, Vlog/Facebook Live
Is that ugly word PRIDE showing itself in your life? It has in mine recently and I’m so excited to punch it in the face. Let’s do it together!
#coffeewithsj episode 5 – punching PRIDE in the face.
by | Faith Lived Out, Life Application, Vlog/Facebook Live
You can’t have healthy friendships without accountability. But what if holding others accountable looks different than what we think it does?
Join us for #coffeewithsj Episode 4: Calling People Up Instead of Out
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by | Faith Lived Out, Vlog/Facebook Live
When I was 14 years old I got behind the wheel of a car drunk and high. It’s by the grace of God I lived to tell about it. I’d love to say I learned my lesson, but I didn’t.
Recently there was a horrible car accident in my hometown and alcohol was involved. Since then there have been so many opinions and comments on Facebook that have both hurt my heart and made my blood boil. Judgment, opinions, gossip, and more judgment.
Henry Cloud says, “Truth without grace is judgment.” What kind of grace are we sharing in speaking truth?
Are we casting stones we have no right to cast? I’m talking about that today…
by | Faith Lived Out, Life Application, Uncategorized
How many times has your mouth gotten you into trouble? Or perhaps you’ve been deeply hurt by the words of others. I’ve been on both sides, unfortunately.
I remember when Facebook used to be fun. I could scroll through and see pictures of families I wanted to keep in touch with, connect with new online friends who shared the same interests, and enjoy kitten memes.
Now it seems my feed is full of online wars between one another versus actually dealing with the problem. We use it as a passive aggressive way of getting our point across to a specific person without saying name. We gossip. We slander. And we do it all behind a protective screen, convincing ourselves if we do it this way, it won’t really hurt anyone.
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