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Faith is living *with* the questions: Grieving with Hope

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The video below from August of 2008 isn’t something I’m sharing just to draw out your emotions, even though it definitely will. I’m posting it because there is a great message here about how our faith isn’t always free of the “whys” in life. I’ll be sharing more in future posts about my faith journey recently and some of my own struggles, but for now watch and hear how one family learned that faith is living with the questions we have, and that death doesn’t have to be the end. Instead we can grieve with hope.

Thoughts on Suffering

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Today I’m just going to share what has occupied my thoughts and prayers lately, and filled me with plenty of “whys” for my God…

It’s stressful to be a god.

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Now and then I’ll link to a post from the “Conversion Diary” blog. Usually it’s when Jen writes another post about me. I don’t know how she keeps doing that.

By Tony Snow, who recently passed away

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Blessings arrive in unexpected packages – in my case, cancer. Those of us with potentially fatal diseases – and there are millions in America today – find ourselves in the odd position of coping with our mortality while trying to fathom God’s will. Although it would be the height of presumption to declare with confidence […]

My Conversion Story and How Our Marriage was Healed

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Have you ever gone through bumps in your marriage?  Do you know how normal you are, even if the bumps are much more like Mount Everest? You don’t hear about the ones who make it… Normally we only hear about marriages that didn’t make it, but rarely do you know when someone went through a […]

Life Changes – Five Ways They’re All the Same

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This was originally written and posted for my Nutrition blog, but I thought it might be a good one to post here too… I’ve had two major “conversions” in my life (and probably other small ones too): my “food conversion” and my Christian conversion. DON’T LEAVE YET! I won’t go weird on you, but this […]