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Who Are You January 15, 2021 by Ellie

Fresh out

It’s tough to feel anything but dried up these days. Poetry helps. So does reading the Word. (One more than the other.)

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Who Are You January 14, 2021 by Ellie

State of Wonder: 21 in ’21

I don’t usually make New Year’s resolutions, but when I do, it’s about progress, not perfection.

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Who Are You January 13, 2021January 17, 2021 by Ellie

Etch a Sketch New Year

2020 took a lot from you. That’s true.⁠ It also gave.⁠

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Who Are You January 11, 2021January 17, 2021 by Ellie

Toyota Matrix for the Lord

What kind of vehicle are you when it comes to God’s will?

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Who Are You January 8, 2021 by Ellie

The tyranny of time made beautiful

Even as I kid, I desperately felt like I’m running out of time, never able to do or be enough. But God can use even that curse to make something beautiful.

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Who Are You January 7, 2021January 6, 2021 by Ellie

2020 Review: The Year of Shema

I approached my year-end reflection with a sense of failure and shame. But I wonder if I didn’t shema better than I thought.

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Who Are You October 23, 2020January 17, 2021 by Ellie

He calls me good

Will I disappoint you? Almost guaranteed.

Will I disappoint God? Never.

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Who Are You June 2, 2020June 11, 2020 by Ellie

To speak truth in love, you must speak

Although white-woman-wokeness is trendy right now and I hate bandwagons, something tectonic has shifted in me, and now I can no longer balk at the fear of imperfection and conflict that has positioned me against people I love by default. It’s time to break the seal of silence and be willing to imperfectly stand and speak the truth in love.

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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Who Are You May 12, 2020August 27, 2020 by Ellie

He calls you as you are not

God calls out who you are long before it’s who you are. Just before the Unpleasantness, I found an extremely abridged version of “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” at the thrift store (remember those?) and scooped it up for Mackenzie. She found it over the weekend, so we read it together. She was …

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You are a citizen of Heaven
Who Are You April 24, 2020August 27, 2020 by Ellie

You’re not from around here

I’m homesick, guys. With all the travel and immigration restrictions, my soul is longing for a place it can’t go, for the family I left behind, for a life we planned but may not have now. If you didn’t know, I’m an American expat (I think of myself as an alien–it’s cooler). I’ve lived in …

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