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Authentic You: When You Are Afraid of Being Unliked {day 16}

Okay, confession. That blog post I wrote yesterday was more a prayer for myself than a proclamation. The last part, where I wrote, “Look out and up at God and step boldly into openness”? Yeah. I’m not...

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Peel Back a Layer or Two {day 18}

{Looking for Hear It on Sunday, Use It on Monday? Click here.} A couple of weeks ago I was running my regular, four-mornings-a-week jogging route when I heard a woman call out my name. She was biking...

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Halfway to Authentically You {day 19}

Yup, that’s an intentionally wry title. Because the truth is, we are never halfway or a quarter of the way or three-fourths of way toward “achieving” authenticity, because striving toward authenticity...

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Clowning Out {or When You Find Yourself Hustling for Worthiness – day 20}

A few weeks ago I posted a snarky comment on Facebook after I’d read this article about tips for extending dinner time with your kids. I don’t remember exactly what I said, but it was something along...

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Authentic You: What I Want for Her {day 21}

I’m so grateful to my friend Evi Wusk for writing these beautiful words about the authentic life she desires for her young daughter. And I have to tell you, too, that Evi wrote this poignant piece in...

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What Counts Before God? {day 22}

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When You Can’t Hear God through the Noise {day 23}

I sit in the third row of the shuttle bus, my head against the cool window, stuffed carry-on perched heavily on my lap. One row behind me two women process their conference experience together as the...

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Why I Almost Quit 31 Days {day 24}

I almost bailed on this 31 Days series. Not because it’s a lot of work (although it is). And not because I ran out of things to say about authenticity (although I came close). No, I almost quit this...

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What I Learned at Allume {and it ain’t pretty – day 25}

So you know it’s bad when you have to write a disclaimer before the actual post, right? Truthfully, I almost didn’t post this one. I had my husband read it (which in four+ years of blogging, I have...

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31 Days to an Authentic You — The End {day 26}

“To be nobody-but-yourself in a world that’s doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight – and never stop...

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