Category: Family and Relationships
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Power
Miriam E. Miles
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forgiveness
Miriam E. Miles
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Write the truth or don’t write at all
We live in a society that swells with saccharine, predictable, cookie-cutter creativity and shun (or at the very least, tolerate) that which causes the breath to trip, the mind to lurch, and the heart to stop with its brazen approach to arrest us and force us
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We were never going to be enough
There is an exquisite beauty in discovering that we are unable to do this life thing on our own. To know that we are guided, gently and intentionally toward the heart of the One who loves us most, is the one pure gift that can never be measured. Humility isn’t about declaring we can’t do…
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that bright door
by Miriam E. Miles
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bio-dad
By Miriam E. Miles
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Sacrifice
By Miriam E. Miles
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We must
We must reflect on what has come before, what is now, and what may be. If we do not,
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Humble pie
I have become quite uncomfortable with the level of humility God seems to want me to experience.
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Be Imperfect
There’s a reason we’re all still here – why we don’t get swept up to heaven the second we become Christians. It’s because we still need each other. We grow when we connect, tune in, and love on each other. We expand our humanity when we open up, become vulnerable to trusted family and friends,…
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The power of thinking for yourself
When we believe someone or something has authority over us, we find ourselves saying we ‘have to, we must, we should, we ought to’. We are giving this something or someone else the power over our time, energy, resources and directio
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What if happiness is a lure and not an antidote?
I’ve been thinking about suffering lately. I am coming to believe that we live in a society that values happiness and it’s continual pursuit over the necessity of acknowledging struggle, fear, grief and suffering.
Miriam E. Miles 