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I Just Thought I Loved People
It’s been a while since I have written to you, dear readers. I have been quite occupied, learning something quite shocking about myself. I thought I loved people, but I was wrong. I call myself a people person. I fill my days with breakfast dates, dinner dates, and babysitting jobs. I like to help people…
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Conquering Fear
To Those Who Have a Crazy Dream: Fear is a funny thing. It’s funny because it often comes wearing unexpected disguises. Rather than the scary black cloak and long pointy finger nails we expect, Fear usually arrives wearing business casual, preppy heels, red lipstick and toting a designer purse. She’s prepared with an agenda and…
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Thoughts and Prayers
The phrase “thoughts and prayers aren’t enough” keep rolling around in my head like angry little marbles. I’ve read phrases like “we need more policies” and “this isn’t about religion.” I’ve read phrases that say God has been “taken out of public schools” and “this kind of thing didn’t use to happen. ” I open…
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What This Is Us Says About Our Need for Fathers
processing almost losing my dad while watching the show that’s captured a nation
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Wrong About God: The Most Fascinating and Wonderful Discovery
Here’s the thing. Nothing is I thought it was. This whole journey of being human, being woman, being daughter, being a constantly questioning, constantly inquisitive child of a vast, beautiful laughing Father, Daddy, Abba… it’s all so different than how I thought it would be. It’s so much better. The trouble with books is they…
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To all of us Christians, the religious ones: a poem
This for all of us, the Christians, the religious ones, Who boldly approach the altar, To worship our convictions. This is for all of us who sit at home paralyzed by fear, and call it waiting on the Lord, when the Lord is already here. This is for all of us with more opinions than…
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Why Does it Hurt so Much?
I’m standing in church this morning during worship. Surrounded by hundreds of people worshipping God fearlessly and beautifully. And what is the thought that comes rushing into my head, right past the bethel music lyrics on my tongue? What if someone came into the church right now and started shooting? What if that story became…
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Snow: a foreshadowing of great things in 2018
If you were looking for the spiritual significance in this amazing weather event, look no further, ha! Here’s my take, written as I sip my coffee and stare at the snow outside my window, might I add! It is snowing, in Thomasville, Georgia, on January 3rd, 2018! This amount of snow has never accumulated here…
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Christmas Expectations
I consider myself to be a pretty low maintenance person. I don’t pack a great deal on trips, I try not to be the person everyone is waiting on in the store, I don’t order complicated things on the menu, and I try not to send it back if it comes out wrong. I figure…
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Looking Back on 2017
Dear 2017, You have been something else. You swept in, all high on hope and dreams, and promised me many things. Some have come, others have not. And that is okay. You have taught us, as humanity, many things. I want to thank you for reminding me of the people I really and truly need.…
Sarah D. Shearer 