be more wholehearted
Here’s permission to be a little softer. We’ll unlearn living with tight fists around the ways we think things should be. Instead, living with hands open to receive what God gives and give generously out of what has been given. To approach God as whole, feeling beings—not half-hearted but completely invested. To live with your whole heart.
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Being Beloved
It's the thing we all want to know, that we're really loved. And the good news is we're not only loved, but deeply and truly loved. All the dark shadows in us have been seen and known, and yet we are loved. It draws out the good and commendable in us. It goes against our core fear, which is to find out that we're not really loved and never were and never can be.
The other side of being the Beloved is that we don't have to fight our way to it. We don't need to prove ourselves. We don't earn it. What do we do when we find there's plenty of love for us? That the well won't ever run dry? How does it look to live into the knowing that we are the Beloved?
Subscribe to explore the idea that, as Henri Nouwen put it, "Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence." Let’s learn to own our true identity together, Beloved.
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Converging Grace
A podcast for healthier adult relationships. Join my husband Garth and me as we interview other couples, pastors, and friends. We’ll ask people about their best friendships and what makes them good. Finding and maintaining friendships seemed easy when we were kids, but then it got hard. What gives? We hope to take you along with us as we learn how we can have better grown up relationships. Because these are the places where grace from God and for each other converge.
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