sleep

Sleep–It Does More Than We Imagine

My husband, Tim, falls asleep most nights in approximately 11.3 seconds. No joke! Not me. I am among the millions who find getting a good night’s sleep a challenge. It’s been a journey like no other. Plagued …

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Price Tag

There is a price tag attached to our overload and exhaustion. A deep discontentment that settles in our bones and sours our soul. Relational tension – combative, distant, destructive. Illness. Mild and annoying. Dramatic and life-changing. Death. …

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Idolatry Today

We all serve, honor, live for something, whether it’s God or a god. People did it 4,000 years ago and we’re still doing it today. Through the years, my definition of idolatry was limited and uniformed. As …

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Sleep. It Does a Body Good

Seven weeks in the hospital with my son, Joe, left me wilted and worn. Once home, my fierce commitment to sleep, met stiff resistance against a growing battle with insomnia. The culprit this-time-around? It was not simply …

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Men and Women

The question before us: Do men and women rest differently? Yes we do—just like men and women do just about everything differently. My husband, Tim, played an integral part in teaching me about rest. It was not an …

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Exclamation Points

Have you ever noticed the exclamation points in Isaiah 62:10? Go out, go out through the gates; prepare a way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway, clear away the stones! Raise a banner …

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Team Work

Ready to put on your work boots? I’m no longer in this alone. The ranks are swelling. We (we!) have been entrusted with the message “Run hard. Rest well.” It’s not my message – not one ounce of it. …

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Fire

Fire tends to create Hi-Def moments. Flames and firetrucks exploded into my world last Friday afternoon as fire engulfed a large maintenance building 25 yards from our home at the camp where we live. Engulfed. The black …

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Sweet Spot

A sweet spot. I am in that place—a place where I am intimately aware of the hand that leads and the heart that beats for me, for you. It’s a place of astounding security (held tight), freedom …

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Road Less Traveled

Rest. Take it. Run. Run with it. Run into it. Never, ever run away from it. Ever. Run with great determination. God’s arms are opened wide. Run. Be at rest once more, O my soul … Psalm …

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