Welcome to a becoming-space. A place for imperfectly ready people to say yes to more Jesus and actual friendships with their neighbors. A place for introverts and workaholics and people-pleasers and self-doubters. Welcome, welcome, if that’s you! I get that pull you feel to go deeper. Find purpose, meaningful conversations, community. I also get how you think you’re not ready. Want to know a secret?! None of us are, least of all me! Also true is that we BECOME ready after, not before, we say ...
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180 - How to Find Your Way Through a Silent Midnight
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Sometimes you go looking for a word of the year, and sometimes it finds you–like a cat who adopts you first or a word nestled into Ann Voskamp’s Sacred Prayer journal that stills your heart. And you know, without scouring word lists or weighing options or praying long for clarity, that the Hebrew word korban is your one word for 2025. Links mention…
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179 - What to Do When a Word of the Year Finds You
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Sometimes you go looking for a word of the year, and sometimes it finds you–like a cat who adopts you first or a word nestled into Ann Voskamp’s Sacred Prayer journal that stills your heart. And you know, without scouring word lists or weighing options or praying long for clarity, that the Hebrew word korban is your one word for 2025. Links mention…
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178 - How to Go Gently Into the End of the Year
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How’s this for a trade? Your never-named aloud fears, your residual shame, your tucked-deep message of unworth, the lists you haven’t completed, the names you’ve called yourself inside your head, the band-aids over old scars–for the deepest inhale of grace that makes you feel light and lovely from your nose to your toes. Links mentioned: To get a s…
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177 - For the One Wishing Joy Was Authentic This Thanksgiving
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Maybe you’re just not feeling it this year, but you’re wearing the smile anyways. You wish it could feel authentic. I see you holding so much extra. Extra and also less, for there’s loss and disappointment and deeply-set worry scrunching lines in your brow. It’s a lot under the weight of amplified expectations and hold-your-breath prayers and silen…
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176 - How to Slow Down 101 for Quick Learners and Multitaskers
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I’m better at learning things fast—as if beginner to expert overnight is a goal worth pursuing. But the things that take grueling-slow learning and moment-by-moment surrender, those are the harder lessons to learn. The ones most worth learning. Links mentioned: It’s not too late to join the #ReflectJesus challenge! Grab the challenge prompts HERE a…
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175 - How to Cultivate Happiness That Hinges on Honesty
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We give self-talk its own category and unreined license to belittle and badger. Under labels like inner critic, perfectionism, and people-pleasing, these self-directed lies appear safe. But maybe we’ve normalized lying to ourselves about who we are and what we’re worth. Perhaps we’ve underestimated the impact of repeating self-condemnation and shar…
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174 - This Is What God Actually Sees When He Looks at You
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Set out to reflect Jesus like a mirror and you come face-to-face with your list of what you lack. Your squabbles and squeamish fears, your flat-out insecurity and sneaky pride. The features you’d change. The less-thans and not-likes and labels confirming your unworth. Links mentioned: It’s not too late to join the #ReflectJesus challenge! Grab the …
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173 - How to Navigate Mountains, Enneagram Differences, and Elections
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I find what works on a mountain also applies to our relationships with our Enneagram opposites and how we approach an election. Links mentioned: Discover your Enneagram number and how it helps you love your neighbors well HERE. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. Read the written…
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172 - How to Find Light Amidst Darkness & Joy in the Mess
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David finds himself in a spot many of us do today, sandwiched between the ugly and awful repercussions of a severed relationship with God and the invitation to find oasis in the here-and-now as we wait for full glory. Links mentioned: Check out Begin Within: A Gratitude Series. Get the weekly story in your inbox to cultivate year-round, ripple-effe…
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171 - How to Find With-Ness When You Feel Alone
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With-ness. Could there be a word that sits closer to the tender heart of God? It strikes me while praying for North Carolina, Chaing Mai, and Florida how God’s promise to join us as we gather in His name (Matthew 18:20) reveals His desire 1) to be with us and 2) for us to be together. Links mentioned: To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every …
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170 - How to Reflect Jesus Like a Mirror (In 3 Specific Ways)
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A reflection is a mirror image. It captures the slightest tilt of the head, a shift in posture, merriment in the eye, or sorrow squeezing eyebrows together. It’s not static, but fluid, transcribing in real-time every stray hair and sigh, every question etched in a facial expression. The fullness of emotion, the details of dress, the way we slump or…
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169 - Normalize The Uncommon: What Happens When We See The People In Front Of Us
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What if I were a bit more like her? Noticed details and demeanor, presence and absence? Gave others a glimpse of how we each matter to God? Links mentioned: Discover your Enneagram number, what we love about you, how your Enneagram strengths help you love your neighbors well, and how to best love your neighbors with different numbers HERE! Around t…
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168 - How to Adopt Maybe He Will Kind of Faith
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When we’re walled on every side by insurmountable, when the odds aren’t in our favor, when there’s no action or inaction that’s risk-free, what do we do? Because sometimes it appears there isn’t a way out. Maybe you’ve been there, or that’s where you are today: pinched between bad and also bad. You need an immediate and miraculous rescue. Let’s tur…
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167 - How to Thrive on Your Tiny Slice of Right Now
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When we feel welcome, we come back. Kids know this instinctively. As adults, we might have to unravel what we’ve learned about hospitality because we’ve somehow begun caring more about keeping our house clean than putting our guests at ease. Our efforts, though good-intentioned, may sabotage what we truly want: for others to feel at home in our hom…
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166 - How to Navigate the Good and Beautiful Mess of Missional Living
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When we feel welcome, we come back. Kids know this instinctively. As adults, we might have to unravel what we’ve learned about hospitality because we’ve somehow begun caring more about keeping our house clean than putting our guests at ease. Our efforts, though good-intentioned, may sabotage what we truly want: for others to feel at home in our hom…
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165 - What Peace Is Like in Our Honest, Everyday Lives
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Are you longing for soul rest too? Grace that holds? Peace that lasts? Let’s name it together. Links mentioned: To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. Read the written version of this episode HERE.Por The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
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164 - What To Do When We Can’t Go Back to How It Was
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Consider this: What if the multi-faceted masterpiece of your God-given strengths and life experiences helps you reflect Jesus in a way that literally no one else can? Links mentioned: To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. Read the written version of this episode HERE.…
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163 - How to Regain Control When You’re Skidding
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As I remember my dad’s calm presence in the passenger seat, I think of Jennifer Dukes Lee’s nudge to see Jesus as a driver’s ed coach rather than a chauffeur. Links mentioned: To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. Read the written version of this episode HERE.…
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162 - How to Make the Decisions You’d Rather Avoid or Rush
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As I hold the decisions I want to delay and the ones I’m tempted to rush in open hands, here’s what’s helping me tune in to God’s voice right now. Links mentioned: To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. Read the written version of this episode HERE.…
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161 - When You Assume It’s About You, Ask 1 Question
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When I’m tempted to make assumptions about something that’s likely not about me, I ask myself a question: Is my reaction opening my heart or closing me off? Links mentioned: To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. Read the written version of this episode HERE.…
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160 - One Daring, Sure-Fire Way to Find Hope When You’re Hurting
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It’s been one year since the biggest, littlest miracle happened. As I stand on this side, thankful for now, and also knowing not a single tomorrow is guaranteed, I think of you. Maybe you’re begging for it to all make sense. You might be white-knuckling a prayer because time is short and you’re scared. Or you’re looking backwards, grieving somethin…
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159 - “Eyes on Me”: The Best Answer for Your Inner Slouch
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I was the kid my parents would regularly remind to stand up straighter. Because I’d slouch. If that was you too, you know how you sometimes feel like you never outgrew the label of insecure adolescent. Links mentioned: The worship songs I love best. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up …
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158 - How to Create a Morning Routine Framework for Summer
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I’ll walk you through the key habits in my current morning routine, not to tell you what to include in yours, but to show you how to use a framework that can flex with the time you have available on any given day. Here’s what I’m believing for you: hunger to know God more fully and grace for what it looks like in your actual life. Links mentioned: …
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157 - How to Get to the Bottom of Lies You’ve Internalized
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Ever feel like you’re on the operating table? Like all your wound-tight knots and woundedness are under scrutiny? That’s where I was just the other day—asking a brave question in my journal then heading outside to work through it with God while I walked. When you find yourself turning well wishes for the weekend into “leave me alone,” assuming genu…
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156 - This Is Important for Your Discouraged Heart
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The very spots that deplete us of our rightness and self-sufficiency open us up to truth that frees and a God who redeems. The fractures sting, but they deflate pride, make more room for God inside. They help us get out of our own way so God can have His perfect way in us. I’ve been one to pray it’s behind me soon. Figured out fast. Healed fully an…
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