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Book launch day

Community is Key to Recovery

Relearning and Reviving Compassion

A conversation about Purpose in recovery

A conversation about physical recovery from prescription opioid addiction

What do you mean you’re “in recovery”? Why aren’t you healed?

Where you need to be and where you are most needed

Seven Reasons to Hope- a free ebook for you

10 years clean: celebrating with ordination and a feature in Guideposts Magazine

The power of ‘Me Too’

Facing surgery as a former addict, and the importance of finding the right healer

when medical professionals refuse to take addiction recovery seriously

dear friend who is up late, online, and searching for answers

waking from the anesthesia of noise

distraction and the discipline of presence

going retro: recklessness and regret

five favorite things for February

the importance of cheerleaders

Everyone loves a comeback

good enough

when love is built on countless failures

Life should be celebrated. And that includes birthdays.

the reluctant hostess: guest post at (in)courage

advent meditation

the truth about welfare

when it’s time to burn the past

dear mom who is trying to do everything right

dear mom who feels the darkness

dear mom who wishes she could home school

dear mama who worries

a season of sharing the work

on the occasion of my 100th post

17 things I say to my kids that I really should say to myself

when you fall asleep writing a title and hit publish on accident

beginning again and again

a Sunday verse for October beauty

don’t give up your day job

a book for all seasons and an invitation to share

6 shortcuts you learn when you’re always in a hurry

shoes for the season

a season of uncertainty and certainty

try to be there, a Sunday picture

a solitary space

a season of fragments

a season of good enough

he still talks to me: a birthday reflection

middle age, metabolism, and Monday

our harvest of one

hope from a season of despair

treasure the doing more

the healing power of daily discipline

note to self: it’s okay to be a writer

Obsessed with personality quizzes? Me too.

idylls of the cat, or, a brief study of self-centeredness

it’s never too late to plant seeds

because people do change

pride, part two . . . or, a sampler of thoughts on arrogance

a swift current of sorrow

repost: a light between here and there

of pride and pompousness, part one

how do I envy? let me count the ways . . .

22 ordinary kindnesses to keep a marriage going

when patience is a kind of suffering

when you don’t know what to do, try love

a funny Valentine: love and fear and staying

12 great things you learn when you skip school to go to a Super Bowl parade

a table in the wilderness

a prescription for addiction

letting go of leaves

link to: the secret lives of Christian pill addicts

a harvest of gratitude

filters for our words, part two

right, wrong, and grace

filters for our words, part one

when I lament the things I haven’t taught my daughter

a light between here and there

when I fear I have lost my flavor

blessings for healing: suffering

blessings for healing, brotherhood

blessings for healing, seeing God

blessings for healing: mercy

blessings for the broken part four

blessings for the broken part three

blessings for the broken, part two

blessings for the broken, part one

homesick

there is hope for your future

marking time

Epiphany

A book for every resolution

Defeating discouragement

talk to your kids about drugs. no, really.

silent alarms

dreams of gold

all I ever have to be

a life as unmanageable as my hair

there is beauty in detail

maintaining regret

what if we all quit being super woman

power in a parking lot

on being fragile

the truth heals, part two

the truth heals, part one

there’s something I have to tell you

Redemption is real

But for the grace of God

Pain hurts

If the foundations are destroyed

twenty years and counting

The gift of gratitude

The hopelessness of darkness

Just take a pill

Learning to hide

Secrets

Sun changes everything

Weighing In

“It don’t matter at all where you played before, California’s a brand new game”

“Enduring hardship as a pathway to peace”

Seven

“All the voices calling out to me”

“Fix it ’til it’s broke”

The way we wash our clothes

Insanity

The fine line between belief and denial

The joy of pie

Another June

The friend at the end of my rope

Maybe it’s me

Every holiday a headache

I owe it to Oprah

And so it begins…

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