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The Gift of a Soul That Understands Yours

  For Benisse Elsa Manzi, on her 28th birthday. Reflections on friendship, gratitude, and the quiet ways God sometimes loves us through people. Some people enter your life so early that you don’t yet realize how deeply they will shape your story. You meet them in ordinary places, classrooms, hallways, conversations that seem small at the time. Nothing about the moment suggests that this person will one day become someone whose presence will echo through years of your life. And yet sometimes, that is exactly what God is doing. Today my best friend turns 28, and thinking about her birthday has made me pause and look back at the friendship we have carried since we were fourteen years old. When you are fourteen, you don’t know what it means to grow alongside someone for years. You don’t know how many versions of yourself still exist ahead of you , the questions you will wrestle with, the dreams that will change, the steps of faith that will scare you, the moments when you will need som...
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The Cross Is Not the End: Learning to Hope for Resurrection

  There was a moment recently in prayer where a thought kept coming back to me over and over again: The Christian life sometimes feels like constant death. Death to pride. Death to sin. Death to the flesh. Death to old desires. Death to self. And if I’m honest, sometimes it feels like that is all there is. The more I walk with Christ, the more I see things in me that need to die, attitudes that need to be surrendered, habits that must be crucified, dreams that must be placed on the altar and somewhere along the way, I realized something about my heart: I had started expecting only death. Not resurrection. I knew, theologically, that Scripture says we participate in both the death and resurrection of Christ. But emotionally, spiritually, and practically, I had settled into believing that the Christian journey was mostly about dying. Almost as if God’s main work in my life was simply shaping me through loss, surrender, and sacrifice until nothing of me remained. And because of that, ...
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