Daly Schmidt
{Silence}
It is true that when one sense is dulled, others become keener. For several weeks, I’ve been driven towards silence more so than usual. ...
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Daly Schmidt
- Mar 23, 2022
- 5 min
He Chose Me in Kindness
I chugged the last of my coffee and shook the remaining drops out on the sand. I didn’t have any pockets to fill, so my coffee cup would...
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Daly Schmidt
- Mar 1, 2022
- 7 min
Thinking Through the Unthinkable
Drop your political views before you read another word. Because I’m not talking politics. I’m talking about injustice. We may disagree...
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Daly Schmidt
- Feb 8, 2022
- 6 min
Invited into Real Love
I need real love for a very broken me. There's a lot about myself that I cannot fix. There are more aches than I can heal, more stains...
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Daly Schmidt
- Jan 25, 2022
- 6 min
Come, Let Us Reason Together: Hope Deferred
One of my worst fears in life is throwing up. I know, after 3 pregnancies, you’d think I would get over it. But, nope! It still...
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Daly Schmidt
- Jan 18, 2022
- 4 min
Hope for the Bruised Soul
When Melissa asked if I would like to blog on “hope” as a theme for January 2022, my immediate response was, “Umm…no.” And then, I just...
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Daly Schmidt
- Sep 6, 2021
- 5 min
Keep the Main Thing, the Main Thing
Parenting. Is. Hard. Period. Some things about parenting feel like we are shooting in the dark, hoping for the best. Parenting kids with...
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Melissa Jackson
- Sep 1, 2021
- 2 min
A spur is not for comfort
For close to one year my alarm goes off at 5:15am on Tuesday mornings. A small group of neighbors on my street gather over zoom for...
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Daly Schmidt
- Aug 30, 2021
- 4 min
Necessary Reliance
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who has promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another...
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Daly Schmidt
- Aug 23, 2021
- 3 min
Bracing for Change
If what happens within our gatherings does not change how we engage in the world, then our gatherings do not matter. Ordinary people,...
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Daly Schmidt
- Aug 16, 2021
- 4 min
Locked Doors
As I type this, horrific scenes have been cast into our peaceful homes from Afghanistan, as the Taliban enters with swift force. This...
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Daly Schmidt
- Aug 10, 2021
- 5 min
Gather
"Where two or three of you gather together in my Name, there I am with you." Matthew 18:20 Bottom line: I want to know Jesus; to love Him...
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Daly Schmidt
- Aug 2, 2021
- 3 min
Caution: Work in Progress
One of my favorite tombstones in the world marks the gravesite of Ruth Graham Bell, Billy Graham’s wife. It reads: “End of construction –...
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Daly Schmidt
- Jul 26, 2021
- 5 min
Mining Unique Personal Value & Worth
"Cling to what is good." Romans 12:9 Value & worth So much of our identity is wrapped within this framework. What is my value and what...
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Daly Schmidt
- Jul 19, 2021
- 4 min
Help for the Journey
“I considered my ways, and turned my feet to your testimonies…” (Psalm 119:59) My local Target recently re-arranged the layout of every...
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Melissa Jackson
- Jul 14, 2021
- 3 min
Welcome Guest Blogger: Sara Hunneycutt
Whatever is in my heart will overflow out and over into my life. The heart is the organ that pumps blood by way of the circulatory...
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Daly Schmidt
- Jul 12, 2021
- 5 min
For the crushed in spirit...
“A cheerful heart does good like a medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22 First things first, I’m a realist:...
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Melissa Jackson
- Jul 7, 2021
- 2 min
Is it truly freedom?
"For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage."Galatians 5:1 Freedom is a...
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Melissa Jackson
- Jun 14, 2021
- 2 min
I am not fun, but I can choose joy.
I do not exude fun. I would not use fun or funny in a list of adjectives about me. In fact, most of the time I feel like a joy suck in...
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Melissa Jackson
- May 26, 2021
- 2 min
But the greatest of these is love.
As little girls we are romanticized into believing that whimsical love will truly conquer all. More strolls in the park and candlelight...
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