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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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