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Continue reading →: Turn Your EyesHow do you feel today? Don’t tell me what I want to hear. Tell me the truth. If someone knew what you were thinking and you could not lie, how would you respond? Tired? Fearful? Confused? Hopeless? Lifeless? Today, I would answer “vigilant”. I guess I am nervous. Nervous and…
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Continue reading →: Father and Son
Growing up, there was a song that my dad would always play on his guitar. I knew the words to it before I could walk. It’s a Cat Stevens song called “Father and Son”. It’s about a dad letting his son go be a man and a son’s want to…
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Continue reading →: Pieces of PeaceI love to put puzzles together. Geeky hobby, I know. But, I am not ashamed to say I find it fulfilling. Puzzle How-To: Step 1: Choosing the puzzle. This is the best part. Your puzzle choice depends on two key factors: difficulty and reward. You choose the number of pieces…
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Continue reading →: ChangeMy conversation with God today… ME: I want to give up. God, I just want to quit. Please, get me out of this? GOD: You don’t have to quit. ME: I did last time and it made me feel better. GOD: For a moment. ME: This one is too hard.…
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Continue reading →: WeaknessIt’s 4:13 am. Couldn’t sleep.Events of the day were swarming, robbing me of peace. Each problem was being rehashed in my mind and I would attempt to find a solution or allow the emotion to consume me. After about an hour of this cyclical event, I began to hear the…
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Continue reading →: StruggleI am in a battle. When I was in high school, I read a lot of historical novels that dealt with the Civil War. I have no idea why I was fascinated by that era or why I found that content engaging. Yet, I read and allowed myself to picture…
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Continue reading →: My Place Called ThereLife is hard moment to moment. I am talking about those moments on a Monday morning when you can’t even open your eyes until the second cup of coffee or Thursday night when you have a big deadline and no one is at the office but you. There are wonderful,…
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Continue reading →: The Other SideWhew! The last few weeks have taken my breath away. In the last four weeks I have let go. I have surrendered. I have failed. I have cried. I have laughed. This is what happens when you choose to be free. It can be terrifying and blissful. I wasn’t happy…
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Continue reading →: Broken HeartRead a book. James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces. I am different for having read it. Even if the book made Oprah mad. It taught me. It was a textbook that made the world more sensible yet chaotic at the same time. It scared me and shocked me and disturbed…
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Continue reading →: The New NormalI marvel at calm, demure people. Those people that seem to never be flustered or unaltered emotionally in intense, frustrating situations. I, myself, lack those endearing qualities and tend to react irrationally in frustrating situations. I am sometimes more like the Jesus who took the whip through the temple than…
Hello,
I’m Brittany
This is a blog I began in 2010. It’s a collection of my ruminations, observations, and growth. It’s a place for me (and maybe you) to brake for grace. When culture, church, community don’t seem like a place of grace then this might be the place where things make more sense. The blog is about Christ in culture, church and community. He is the only place where we can truly brake for grace.
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