Marlo Schalesky
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Why the Story of Blind Bartimaeus Can Help You See
Bartimaeus may just be my favorite character in the Bible. There’s something about his tenacity, his audacity and his fierce vivacity that inspires me. He lived in darkness, and yet he saw more clearly than any of his seeing contemporaries. He saw more clearly than I. A blind beggar sitting in the dirt alongside the …
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Trusting God While Waiting When Everyone Says, ‘Do Something’
Waiting. I’ve never been a fan. But it seems I have a Ph.D. in the art. Waiting for the results of infertility treatments, waiting for an offer for a job, waiting for a change in a relationship, waiting for a change in life. And recently, waiting for test results that could mean cancer or mean …
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Scale Your Looming Mountain of Impossibility With This Unshakable Truth
It was another impossible day in my normally impossible life. I woke to Jayden’s blood glucose monitor shrilly announcing a low blood sugar, one twin fiercely arguing with the 4-year-old about a pencil, the bunnies escaping from their cages and running rampant (and leaving little round “signs” of where they’d been) all over the room, …
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Redeeming Your Ugliest Moments Through Holy Spirit’s Power
My fists clenched; my face scrunched and turned hot. Then noise like the screech of an old radio burst from my mouth: “You will eat those beans! You will eat them right now!” I uncurled one tight fist and slammed my palm down on the dining room table. My kids’ eyes grew wide. The baby …
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