Yes. Pain is your friend. Really.
Nagging, piercing, throbbing, persistent, burning, dull, excruciating, crippling...pain. Do you know any of these feelings? If you're like most of us, you hate pain! Pain is BAD. We don't want to have it. And if we have it, we want it to go away.
So here's some ...
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Five Lovely Lessons from a Stress Fracture: Lesson 2
One injury can cause another
In 2016, from March till December, I nursed a hurt foot that interfered with my life on a daily basis. Injury to my left foot and my big toe (a.k.a. "The Great Toe", thankyouverymuch) left me hobbling around for months. Then, my fourth doctor diagnosed a stress ...
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Five Lovely Lessons from a Stress Fracture: Lesson 1
Hello 2017, Goodbye Stress Fracture!
In 2016, our family had a lot of stress—moving stress, job stress, buying/selling house stress, changing churches stress, and bone stress. Yes—that was me—I was the one with the bone stress. It all started with the infamous big-toe-yoga injury of March 2016. ...
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Remember: God Loves a Happy Ending
It Can Be Hard to Find a Happy Ending
I love a happy ending. But these days, it's hard to find a book or movie where the guy gets the girl, the hero wins, and all is set right in the end. Instead, the stories we read and watch end in broken ways. We close the cover or turn off the TV feeling a ...
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Remember: God Loves a Shepherd
A Shepherd Works
We have been thinking about getting a puppy for quite a while. When you're going to get a puppy, you hear a lot about other people's puppy stories. Last week, a new friend was telling me about her Australian Shepherd, which reminded me of a patient I'd had when I was a dental ...
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Remember: God Loves the Little Things…
It's the Little Things that Count
The Son of God was born in a humble place:
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,
from you shall come forth for me
one who is to be ruler in Israel,
whose coming forth is from of old,
from ancient days ...
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