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Sometimes Being Love Means Keeping My Mouth Shut
Being love through the lens of Psalm 4. I’ve fallen in love with Psalm 4. I was originally drawn to it because of verse 8, but recently the entire Psalm has hit me in different ways. Especially this past week, when my work and personal email inboxes hit me like a storm. I was coming…
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God Loves Us
To be love to others, I need to love God. And to love God, I need to acknowledge His love for me. Because I don’t just want to be nice to people, I want to love them with a Christlike love. To do that, to be someone who loves authentically and biblically, I need to…
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Journaled Verses: Steadfast Love
Let me share with you. . . As we go through these weeks learning about being love, I’ll share some verses and thoughts from my 2024 journal about love. Today’s entry was originally written on August 23rd. . . the day I closed on my house. “When I thought, ‘My foot slips,’ your steadfast love, O Lord,…
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A Change of Heart
My word for 2024 was love. Although I didn’t post about it, I spent the year diving into what the Bible says about God’s love for His children and what that means as I love others. The Backstory A few years ago I didn’t recognize myself, didn’t recognize who I’d become. I couldn’t understand how…
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A Love Letter to My Friends
“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2 ESV As I look at my prayer list, I see that my friends are carrying some burdens. Some very heavy burdens. And so this week’s blog post is dedicated to you. To my dear friends, I am so sorry that you are…
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Things They Remember: Being Loved
“Let all that you do be done in love.” 1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV I often wonder if anything I do at work really matters. I invest in students, some for four years, but then they leave. I know parents do the same thing, but it’s a bit different as a teacher. Because I invest in…
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Things They Remember: Making Room for Love
“Let all that you do be done in love.” 1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV I’m intentional about creating a classroom environment in which students feel loved, both by each other and by me. During our time of online and hybrid learning, I used journal reflections to give students opportunities to think about and write responses to…