I feel partially at fault. When she mentioned the lack of central air in her new place and how hot it got while she was at work, I suggested that she leave her window open a crack during the day. I said it would help air circulate through her apartment and keep it from stifling…

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Read the end of my handwritten story on World Vision’s blog, where I’m posting today as part of their 12 Blogs of Christmas series. Life:Unmasked That post? It’s all my handwriting. I wrote an entire story the old-fashioned way. (I know, I know — I also scanned it and Photoshopped it and uploaded it to…

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I walk through the automatic doors into the airlock, fans blasting winter’s chill from my coat. I inhale and think how I could recognize the hospital blindfolded. The hospital’s air sterilizers leave a very distinct lack-of-aroma in the air. As I walk the long concourse to the tower elevators, memories flood with each new scent.…

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They called her a heretic and a false Christian. Comment after comment purported to know her motives and her relationship with God (or lack thereof). They accused her of having an agenda (as if approaching something with a plan is evil) and of creating a god for herself, simply because they disagreed with her. When…

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Instead of writing the life:unmasked post I had planned to write, I spent last night with my husband, hashing out a recent blog post of mine on church membership and church discipline. It took that long to determine that we didn’t actually disagree, but that the words I wrote didn’t convey, at least to him,…

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