How To Change a Mind

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As we move through autumn, lovely green leaves change into a colorful palette before melding into winter’s dreary gray. Change. It’s all good when we talk about leaves, but when we talk about our lives–or changing habits or how we feel about something we’re passionate about–it gets a little uncomfortable. A Big Fat Question–Or Three In one of my all-time …

Hardened Hearts by Diana Guz

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  One morning, my mother entered my room and asked, “Can we pray together?” And so we did. We still don’t speak of the heaviest need on our hearts, the one propelling us to prayer constantly, but in our whispers to God, it is there. The tears flow and after, we hold each other tight. We are bound by this …

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A Different Kind of Beautiful

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 I’ve always thought my mom was beautiful. Graceful. She was trained in opera when she was young. I remember going with her to weddings, hearing her sing the Lord’s prayer. The whole sanctuary full of guests would fall silent on her last, drawn-out note of, “Ahhhhh-mennnn.” Ooooooh. Still gives me goose bumps to think of it. Gorgeous! A few weeks …

Room in My Heart

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…and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped Him in strips of cloth and placed Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.  Luke 2:7 A few days before Thanksgiving, I lay snuggled up in a warm quilt and wool blanket, waiting for sleep to come. Work had been pressing in …