Anxiety

Unraveling

Rebekah Cornelius | Train – Develop – Care Tugging on one little thread can unravel the whole sweater—a visual that describes my relationship with grief and loss. Loss has unraveled…
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Eastering Our Marriage

Judy Gomoll | SHAW and Encore Act one Our Happy Marriage Dies In 2001, death and betrayal arrived to our family, leaving a slew of bleeding wounds behind. After decades…
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When Grief is Louder

Osaze Murray | Train – Develop – Care Sometimes, in the middle of my favorite show, a commercial comes on louder than the show I tuned in on, and I…
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Image of a Suffering God

Cassie Thornburg | World Missions I sat in another waiting room, wondering if the doctors would be able to figure out what was going on. During the last three months…
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God Changed My View of Prayer

Peggy Reynoso Train – Develop – Care I had a love-hate relationship with prayer. For most of my life, God spoke to me sporadically, usually in times of great need…
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Practical Prayer

David Erickson World Missions Spending the past twenty-two years in a pioneering Muslim context has grown my prayer life. Reading the Word? Now, that’s easy and enjoyable. But praying? That’s…
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Dangit, Jo!

By Lyndi Lee Markus, TDC - “Dangit, Jo!” I exclaimed to my spiritual director. Except I did not use the word dangit. I had come to our session discouraged to…
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The Light of Christ

By Amanda Torres, Collegiate - As she struck a match to light the candle for our spiritual direction session, I heard my director say the familiar words she opens with…
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Building Below the Waterline

When surveying the landscape and mining the data around what is happening to people in positions of mission and ministry leadership, several trends become apparent. Among them are:  While social…
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A New Song

“How’s your health, Caitlin?” This was a simple question from a caring Navigator staff woman, as we caught up during a wedding weekend in 2009. Suddenly, the room spun and…
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Worry Proven to be Highly Effective

A scientific study has revealed the significant effectiveness of worry and anxiety. It turns out that over 95 percent of the thing we worry about never occur! 🙂 In spite…
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