Alongside this month’s posts, we considered all the ways many misunderstand mercy. When you hear that mercy never fails, you might believe it’s there to erase your mistakes. But there’s more. Some view it as a reward for remorse. As a reset button that cancels consequences. Maybe as something extended to people who have suffered […]
Eight years ago, a relationship that mattered deeply to me got fractured and couldn’t be repaired quickly. I had done everything I knew to do. Apologized, given space, prayed, waited, tried again. But nothing moved. The silence on the other end stayed silence, week after week. I had run completely out of next steps. That […]
Eight years ago, a close friend said something about me to someone else. Something that wasn’t true, that found its way back to me through the worst possible chain of people and in a season when I was already running low on reserves. Forgiving others was the last thing on my mind! I know she […]
I missed a deadline last spring. By four days. I had committed to the piece months earlier, for an editor I respected deeply. Unfortunately, I had let the chaos of a brutal homeschool project and three overlapping writing projects convince me I had more time than I did. And I thought I’d blown it. No […]
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