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    Say YES today. Not the flimsy yes that people toss around to be polite. Not the exhausted yes that means “I guess so.” The real one. The kind that comes from the strange and stubborn truth that Jesus already said YES to you — loudly, completely, sacrificially — and nothing in heaven or...
    Baby, be wobbly and strong today. Be silly and serious. Be loud and quiet. Be quick to run and slow to listen and then turn around and learn to do the opposite tomorrow. Be weird. Gloriously, unapologetically weird. Following Jesus has always been a strange business. The King of the...
    Baby, read. Read on paper. Read on a screen. Listen while you walk. Borrow someone else’s brain for a while. Because here’s the quiet truth: the universe is vast, and you are gloriously unfinished. That’s not an insult. That’s oxygen. There are galaxies of things you don’t know yet...
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  • Hi, my name is

    JULIA HARTLIEB

  • I am PROOF POSITIVE that Jesus will

    use a ridiculous old lady

    to do small stuff in a BIG way.