Want more on this topic- this topic is also available via the Podcast: What do you need to unsubcribe from? | Podcasts Recently, I found myself doing something incredibly ordinary... Going through my email and pressing unsubscribe. Again. ...And again. ........And again. Years of subscriptions had accumulated. Stores I bought something from once. Organizations I no longer followed. Newsletters I never opened. Companies I did not even remember giving my email address to. And as I watched my...

There are seasons of life that feel like valleys. You cannot see very far ahead. The terrain is difficult. Everything seems heavier than it used to. And sometimes you begin wondering if this is simply your life now. I have had those seasons. There were times when I could not imagine how the circumstances around me could ever become something I would eventually look back on rather than something I was still living inside. Faith did not magically remove the valley. But it changed the way I...

One of the most painful things about betrayal and other major life disruptions is that they can change more than our circumstances. They can change the way we see ourselves. Suddenly we are asking questions we never used to ask. Was I not enough? How didn't I see this? What does this say about me? Was any of it real? Can I trust my judgment? Who am I now? This is where pain can slowly begin turning into shame. Something happened to us, and somewhere along the way we begin deciding that it...