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How to have a truly happy new year.

For the first time in years, I don’t remember my New Year’s resolution from January. Usually, I write it down in my journal or on a note I stick to my mirror. There’s been many of those dog-eared sticky notes from years past. The year of contentment. Speaking life. We passed pancakes across the breakfast table on January 1st this year. “What do you want from 2018?” I can’t remember my answer. I know what I didn’t want though. I didn’t want to walk into her office and share the parts of my life I’m inclined to hide. I didn’t want to Facetime her the day after she delivered her baby that never breathed. I didn’t want to spend four months wondering how I’d walk into her house on Christmas day and see her empty chair. I didn’t want to go on another first date that led nowhere. We sit across from each other in a little coffee shop in Colorado, picking at a charcuterie board. “When I think about all of the things I have left to go through,” her voice cracks....
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Beneath the Surface

“What’s your problem today, Kate?” He looks up at me where I sit perched in the lifeguard chair.

“What do you mean?”

“You just don’t seem like yourself. Usually you’re all smiling and stuff.”

Before I can respond, he gets distracted by the other kids and swims away.

How many people are influenced by our actions, our words, our facial expressions?

It’s like we’re living on a stage and the lights are so blinding that we forget we have an audience.

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,” Hebrews 12:14

Actions cause reactions we will never know about.

How…when we pray, our prayers affect the battle being waged in the spiritual realms.

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12

I’m at a beach Saturday night and I throw a stone out across the unblemished surface of Lake Huron, hoping for the stone to skip across it.

Waiting for the ripple effect.

The stone sinks beneath the surface, where I can’t see it, where I can’t know what it has touched or what it has moved.





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