Author: trosionalo
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What Did the Father Do Between the Leaving and the Return?
The longest days of faith happen when the person you love most has made themselves unreachable. There is a coffee mug in the cabinet that belongs to your son. It…
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Friendship Grief Has No Funeral and No Casserole
Some people leave your life without a sound, and the quiet never quite explains itself. Scrolling through your phone at a red light, you pass a name you haven’t called…
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The Bible’s Most Dangerous Prayer Made It Past Every Editor
Some prayers were never meant to be safe. Last winter a man in my office said something I have not stopped thinking about. He had been through a custody battle…
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Who Were the Nephilim, and Why Does the Bible Never Explain?
Four verses that three thousand years of scholarship still cannot explain. There is a paragraph in your Bible that no one has figured out. Scholars have been arguing about it…
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What Do You Call the Version of Yourself That Made It Through?
Some things survive because they were always the truest part of you. Last fall a woman at a coffee shop was filling out a form, one of those intake sheets…
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Abraham Was 75. Moses Was 80. Your Best Years Aren’t Behind You
The Bible keeps handing its biggest assignments to people the world has already counted out. The birthday cards change around fifty. I noticed it at a drugstore last week, standing…
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Why Would Jesus Weep at a Funeral He Was About to Reverse?
The tears that already knew the ending. My mother cried at every single one of my graduations. Kindergarten, eighth grade, high school, college. Four ceremonies, four times I looked into…
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When the Phone Stops Ringing and the Casseroles Stop Coming
The casseroles stop before the grief does. There were nine dishes in her refrigerator the week after the funeral. She told me this in the kind of detail that only…
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You Saved the Marriage. Now Two Strangers Eat in Silence
Some marriages end with a fight. Others end with a menu and two people who have forgotten how to order for each other. Saturday night at a restaurant just nice…
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The Unforgivable Sin Was Never Aimed at People Like You
The question people type into search bars but never say out loud in church. Somewhere tonight, someone is going to type six words into a search engine: “Have I committed…