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  • Who Knew?

  • Who Knew?

  • It was an unexpected reminder of my loss, another surprising realization that widowhood continually impacts me in so many different ways, both large and small.
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  • Remain Small: The Gift You Give by Thinking of Yourself Less

  • Remain Small: The Gift You Give by Thinking of Yourself Less

  • My wife, Angie, and I just returned from four months on the road. We traveled over 13,000 miles in a 24-foot motorhome. Passing through about 30 states, we traveled from Colorado down to Texas, across to Florida, up the East Coast to New Hampshire, and then across the Midwest before heading back to Colorado.
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  • Be Still

  • Be Still

  • I'm a fixer and I wanted to figure out why grief is all of a sudden pressing me in the dust. I stewed for days when I should have been worshiping. Still stewing, I went to church and the passage for expository congregational worship was Psalm 46.
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  • Downward Mobility

  • Downward Mobility

  • I was first introduced to the phrase “downward mobility” while reading a Henri Nouwen book. At the time, back in 2003, I was just coming to grips with a diagnosis which came crashing into my life: Bipolar II.
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  • The Gift of Cancer

  • The Gift of Cancer

  • Cancer has been a gift for us (not easy), but a gift that has deepened our faith and our love for each other and for Him. The BEST is YET TO COME!!!
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  • Everyday Losses

  • Everyday Losses

  • There were times that I did not think I would ever feel happy again, ever feel joy or peace again. There are many times even now, seven months later, I don’t. But I am held by my Abba.
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  • The Wisdom We Live

  • The Wisdom We Live

  • Incarnational wisdom allows us to recognize and respond to the truth of the season we’re in, not attempt to bend God to our will or agenda.
  • Rosanne Moore. Blog
  • New Chapters

  • New Chapters

  • Despite the fact that so many (in fact all of us) will experience loss and grief, as people of our culture, we know little about it, find it very uncomfortable to talk about, and are generally hesitant to enter into the grief of another.
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  • Sharing Grief, Remembering Joy

  • Sharing Grief, Remembering Joy

  • Grieving is a deep and solitary work, but in the midst of my regret and sorrow, God has tenderly reassured me that as His beloved daughter, my deepest being has nothing to prove and nothing to lose.
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  • The God of all Losses

  • The God of all Losses

  • Grieving is a deep and solitary work, but in the midst of my regret and sorrow, God has tenderly reassured me that as His beloved daughter, my deepest being has nothing to prove and nothing to lose.
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  • Secondary Losses

  • Secondary Losses

  • When your partner dies you lose so much more than a person. For awhile you even lose yourself. When the initial grief fog lifts and you don’t recognize that person in the mirror, you wonder who you are now.
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  • Future Planning

  • Future Planning

  • Pay attention to what stirs within you, but have difficult conversations. Take care of the details, but recognize the deeper story. It is in these deep places where Spirit-honoring relationships come to life. I wonder if I sometimes talk just to hear myself talk or if I talk to impress those on the receiving end of me? In Larry Crabb’s book SoulTalk, he calls this “self talk” while encouraging us to learn to do more “soul talk.”
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  • Bad News is Important

  • Bad News is Important

  • Two questions that I’ve been asking for decades have now taken on fresh urgency. The first is, God, what are You doing? The second, God, what is my hope?
  • Dr. Larry Crabb. Blog
  • Alone But Not Alone

  • Alone But Not Alone

  • I guess what I am saying is that God is filling me with His presence through the people He has placed around me. How can I feel alone?
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  • When Conversations Leave You Lonely

  • When Conversations Leave You Lonely

  • How many of our conversations really matter? What do you feel when it comes time to attend your small group at church? I wonder if I sometimes talk just to hear myself talk or if I talk to impress those on the receiving end of me? In Larry Crabb’s book SoulTalk, he calls this “self talk” while encouraging us to learn to do more “soul talk.”
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  • Rachael’s Ramblings

  • Rachael’s Ramblings

  • “When I feel like I’ll never be able to pick up all of the broken pieces of my heart, it’s the other broken-hearted souls in my life who help me. 
  • Rachael Crabb. Blog
  • Fog, A Prayer

  • Fog, A Prayer

  • When fog of doubt rolls in, thick greyness covers all, Like London’s Baker Street, a gas lamp breaks the pall.
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  • Belonging

  • Belonging

  • With God and with others, made for deep connection, Both the longing to give and receive rich affection. But when ugly self starts to demand its own way, Connections will fracture; there will be hell to pay.
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  • God Displayed

  • God Displayed

  • I think I “heard” God’s voice, though not His voice, per se. “I’m glad that you are here. That’s true for you, alway! Will you believe that’s true? It can anchor your soul.” Something strengthened inside, drawn, yearns to be made whole.
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  • Recovering True Community

  • Recovering True Community

  • Professional journals are not on my preferred reading list. Too often the articles on counseling reinforce the notion that the best counseling is the most technically informed.
  • Dr. Larry Crabb. Blog
  • Is it too much to ask?

  • Is it too much to ask?

  • I, too, have wrestled for a long time with seeking to know God better. The battle has intensified in the last few years. I am dissatisfied with the church in America. If I am honest, I don’t want to go to “church.” In many cases, we Christians don’t represent Jesus very well. I have no doubt some consider me a bitter cynic, maybe even an apostate. You may be right. God knows.
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  • Life in the Storm

  • Life in the Storm

  • The power of Life in the storm, Nearing its edge Yet feeling His hand, Its spray Bearing points Of agitation, God strengthening My heart to endure
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Larger Story Contributors

  • Come Close. You are Invited In!

  • Come Close. You are Invited In!

  • For me, this truly is the most wonderful time of the year. I have always loved everything about Christmas. I love the music, the decorations, the traditions, the colors, the food, and the smells.
  • Karlene Cannon. Blog
  • Fog, A Prayer

  • Fog, A Prayer

  • When fog of doubt rolls in, thick greyness covers all, Like London’s Baker Street, a gas lamp breaks the pall.
  • Larger Story. Blog
  • Belonging

  • Belonging

  • With God and with others, made for deep connection, Both the longing to give and receive rich affection. But when ugly self starts to demand its own way, Connections will fracture; there will be hell to pay.
  • Larger Story. Blog
  • God Displayed

  • God Displayed

  • I think I “heard” God’s voice, though not His voice, per se. “I’m glad that you are here. That’s true for you, alway! Will you believe that’s true? It can anchor your soul.” Something strengthened inside, drawn, yearns to be made whole.
  • Larger Story. Blog
  • Is it too much to ask?

  • Is it too much to ask?

  • I, too, have wrestled for a long time with seeking to know God better. The battle has intensified in the last few years. I am dissatisfied with the church in America. If I am honest, I don’t want to go to “church.” In many cases, we Christians don’t represent Jesus very well. I have no doubt some consider me a bitter cynic, maybe even an apostate. You may be right. God knows.
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Community

  • You’re So Strong

  • You’re So Strong

  • “You’re so strong!” These words, meant to be encouraging, actually feel more like a heavy  weight has been added to an already exhausting burden. We don’t feel strong.
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  • Choosing to Live Again

  • Choosing to Live Again

  • Jan Richardson has said, “It came home to me that the most profound blessings we will ever know are those that meet us in the place of our deepest loss and inspire us to choose to live  again.”  
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  • Belonging

  • Belonging

  • With God and with others, made for deep connection, Both the longing to give and receive rich affection. But when ugly self starts to demand its own way, Connections will fracture; there will be hell to pay.
  • Larger Story. Blog
  • God Displayed

  • God Displayed

  • I think I “heard” God’s voice, though not His voice, per se. “I’m glad that you are here. That’s true for you, alway! Will you believe that’s true? It can anchor your soul.” Something strengthened inside, drawn, yearns to be made whole.
  • Larger Story. Blog
  • Recovering True Community

  • Recovering True Community

  • Professional journals are not on my preferred reading list. Too often the articles on counseling reinforce the notion that the best counseling is the most technically informed.
  • Dr. Larry Crabb. Blog
  • Is it too much to ask?

  • Is it too much to ask?

  • I, too, have wrestled for a long time with seeking to know God better. The battle has intensified in the last few years. I am dissatisfied with the church in America. If I am honest, I don’t want to go to “church.” In many cases, we Christians don’t represent Jesus very well. I have no doubt some consider me a bitter cynic, maybe even an apostate. You may be right. God knows.
  • Larger Story. Blog

Counseling

  • The Unlikely Route to Helping Counselors Become More Like Christ

  • The Unlikely Route to Helping Counselors Become More Like Christ

  • As I look back on 56 years of living in relationship with Christ, and reflect on what happened this last hour, one thought becomes clear: if a wrongly optimistic pilgrim fails to learn the art of recovery, naively thinking there’s not much to recover from, movement toward Christ-likeness will stall.  Never permanently, of course.  God means to make us like His Son, and He will get the job done.
  • Dr. Larry Crabb. Blog

Gender

Identity

Marriage

  • “God, where are you in all of this?!”

  • “God, where are you in all of this?!”

  • Mother’s Day has just come and gone, and this year my four kids went above and beyond to give me a beautiful day beginning with a brunch that included homemade cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting, thoughtful gifts, and then hours of “spring cleaning” so that the house sparkled by the time we were done.
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Relational Poverty

Relationship with God

  • Five Seconds

  • Five Seconds

  • “I have something I want to share with you. I’m not very comfortable with this kind of language, but – well, here goes – the Lord spoke to me last night”.

  • Dr. Larry Crabb. Blog

Relationship with Others

  • What Keeps Us From Connecting?

  • What Keeps Us From Connecting?

  • If connecting is what God has made us for, and if this is what the Holy Spirit equips us to do, then why don't more of us connect with one another? Larry Crabb's answer is developed around four analogies. We tend to be either city builders, fire lighters, wall whitewashers, or well diggers.
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Relationship with Self

Suffering

  • Five Seconds

  • Five Seconds

  • “I have something I want to share with you. I’m not very comfortable with this kind of language, but – well, here goes – the Lord spoke to me last night”.

  • Dr. Larry Crabb. Blog

 

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