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Left Turns and Posture Repositions

It was early and cold for a fall morning, but the road called. I was training for a half marathon and had a five-mile run on my checklist...

Kristan Dooley

Jun 25, 20194 min read

Right Thing, Wrong Place....

It's not always easy to do the right thing. Especially when you are in the wrong place. When your circumstances aren't what you had in...

Kristan Dooley

Apr 24, 20196 min read

That's actually not just the way you are....pt 3

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to...

Kristan Dooley

Feb 13, 20198 min read

God in transition...

If God is always present and at work then it means, there is always an invitation to stop what your doing and join Him in what He's...

Kristan Dooley

Sep 6, 20186 min read

Side streets and back alleys

Jesus was unpredictable. As soon as the disciples thought they had figured it out, He would do something completely opposite leaving them...

Kristan Dooley

May 1, 201812 min read

Friend of God

You know what I love? I love being a mom of older kids. I mean I loved having babies. I loved snuggles and I loved it when my girls were...

Kristan Dooley

Apr 9, 201814 min read

Resisting the lies

Recognizing the lies the enemy cleverly slips into our minds is not enough in and of itself. It's a part of the process of reigning in...

Kristan Dooley

Feb 6, 20184 min read

Dreaming bigger...

Once we begin to see how big God really is, we can’t help but dream bigger. Living with dreams we can achieve on our own speak of a small...

Kristan Dooley

Nov 30, 20173 min read

A pause to say...

I wonder if the problem has anything to do with how rushed life is, or if it's just there are so many things running through our minds....

Kristan Dooley

Nov 22, 20174 min read

Facing the 'yes'

Sometimes changing direction is hard. Believe it or not I am the Dooley least likely to stop and ask for help when it seems we've lost...

Kristan Dooley

Oct 26, 20175 min read

Have a seat...

Sometimes life gets harder before it gets easier. At the end of ourselves is a really hard place to be. But when we've run out of rope,...

Kristan Dooley

Oct 12, 20175 min read

Why healing often involves hard questions...

Rebuilding involves questions. You can't get to where you're going without recognizing where you've been. Our healing is not...

Kristan Dooley

Oct 5, 20177 min read

Why brokenness is not the enemy...

The brokenness around you is never to much for the God within you. The world teaches us to keep it together, but Jesus invites us to let...

Kristan Dooley

Sep 25, 20174 min read

God never said that...

Have you ever had a conversation play over and over again in your head? Maybe in a brave moment, you met a friend for coffee and opened...

Kristan Dooley

Sep 18, 20177 min read

New Beginnings

Her safety zone was our couch. Over and over again she would grab onto it, pull herself up and maneuver around to the other end. In the...

Kristan Dooley

Sep 6, 20174 min read

Eye Contact...

I had a soccer coach who loved spending nine of the ten allotted half time minutes pointing out our missed opportunities. He often...

Kristan Dooley

Sep 1, 20174 min read

Blessed trees and rainy soccer games

The blessed tree Jeremiah talks about in Jeremiah 17 is a deep-rooted tree. It’s the tree lacking nothing. Beautiful inside and out....

Kristan Dooley

Aug 3, 20174 min read

What do we do when we don’t know what to do…

What do you do when you don’t know what to do? When the plan you thought you had turns out not to really be the plan? When the mission...

Kristan Dooley

Aug 3, 20175 min read