“Why I’m Opting Out of Black Thanksgiving Rage” and Other Great Posts From the Web This Week

But I’ll tell you what. If we make eye contact on your way out the door, you won’t see my eyes narrowed in judgment looking your way. Nope. All I have for you is a smile and a hearty thumbs-up and a go get ’em, tiger! Because I get it. I really do. And I hope you find what you’re looking for.

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Sleepless nights, interrupted showers, and piles of scribbled notes are wonderful. They may not lead to everything you’ve hoped for, but there is beauty in faithfully working at our callings.

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Hey. Welcome to the clubhouse. Here’s a weak cocktail and the secret handshake. It’s a losers club, sorry to say, and we’re all long-time members.

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I’ll be honest—it took me a while. Not to show her how to address an envelope (which, as it turned out, took much, much longer than a while, took what felt like an eternity), but for what this young woman told me to finally sink in. She really didn’t know how to address an envelope.

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I do not believe in the God of my youth, who grants parking spaces and favors certain nations. I do believe in a God who hears our muddled prayers, whose very essence is power and love. I believe in a grace not bestowed, but a grace that just IS, that lets us navigate this life and this conversation, together.

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If I’m carrying a thrashing & screaming kid out of a building, offer to carry whatever I had to leave behind. It’s most likely my purse or a bag of groceries or something.

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The Post About Finding A Church Like Finding Love On The Bachelor

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Running these ridiculous races is birth: birth to my stronger self, to the absolute core of me, solid and steely and unmoved.
Running these races…like birth: we forget, so soon, the pain.
We want another

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What were your favorites this week?