Daily Reading
May 19, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. My experiences with the opposite sex in middle school and high school weren’t so great. When I was fifteen, I was thrilled when a young man noti...
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May 12, 2022
God has given each of us an inheritance in Christ. Jesus came that we might have life and life to the full. When we get into relationships with people or institutions or into patterns of behavior or addictions that are not God’s highest for us, they ...
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May 8, 2022
Now for one of the most beautiful mysteries of the feminine heart: women minister something to the heart of God that men do not. Look at the record. There was an event that took place in the life of Jesus that he said should be told whenever the go...
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April 21, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. To be a girl is a glorious thing. Yes, we bear a suffering that guys do not know. This is not a reason to envy them or to curse ourselves. (By t...
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April 5, 2022
Friendship is risky, costly. Friendship is meant to provide a refuge from loneliness, and a respite from self-criticism and the critique of a never-satisfied world. Friendship is a relationship of mutual enjoyment. It is a place where our hearts don’...
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March 24, 2022
Things are not what they were meant to be. East of Eden, we have kept moving east and come all the way ’round, finding the garden utterly lost and cruelly unrecognizable. We were all born into this world. We came in gasping for air, and we are gaspin...
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March 14, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. I encourage you to risk dreaming and writing your dreams down. Once you get started, you’ll find there are things you want. And if you can’t get...
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March 12, 2022
God is rewriting my story. My story is his story, really, and one day he will tell it in all of its hidden splendor. I will get to hear his take on my days, his perception on what was going on underneath and behind the scenes. He will share with me t...
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March 10, 2022
The man possessed by many demons asked Jesus, “Why are You interfering with me?” You know the answer. It’s the same one He has for you. Because He loved him. And He loves you. If we are to find healing and true joy, we need to lean into His interfe...
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February 27, 2022
We live in a larger story. This is not the land of the white picket fences with a chicken in every pot. We don’t live in Oz or the Kansas of its wizard. There is an incredibly good ending to our story, but it often isn’t on this side of eternity. Joy...
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February 22, 2022
Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean at dawn. Remember the ending of a great story. We yearn to linger, to experience it all our days. Sometimes t...
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February 17, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Most little girls at some point dream of living in a fairy tale. The big surprise when we grow up is not that the fairy tale was a myth but that...
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February 16, 2022
In order to recognize a lie, we need to know the truth. Experts in counterfeit money don’t spend their time studying counterfeits. They study the real currency. In the same way, to engage in the spiritual battle raging around us, we don’t shift our f...
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January 20, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. It can be hard to be happy with how God made you at any particular time but especially in the teen years. We feel we are too flat or too curvy, ...
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January 5, 2022
We are more keenly aware of our own shortcomings than anyone else. Remembering the glory that was once ours awakens my heart to an ache that has long gone unfulfilled. It’s almost too much to hope for, too much to have lost. You see, every little g...
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January 1, 2022
True transformation cannot be forced from the outside. It’s an inside-out process. Who of us has not received or created a list of ways to live, eat, exercise, respond, seek God, grow, and change — and how long did it last, if it worked at all? Those...
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December 22, 2021
How God loves his people to ask him in faith — pressing in, continuing to ask no matter how long it takes, believing that he will come through for us. I just got off the phone with a friend who has been praying for her children to come to know Jesus ...
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December 12, 2021
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Like you, I have areas in my life that I want and need to change. But I’ve learned the freeing truth that God is not going to love me any more o...
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December 7, 2021
Every woman knows now that she is not what she was meant to be. And she fears that soon it will be known — if it hasn't already been discovered—and that she will be abandoned. Left alone to die a death of the heart. That is a woman's worst fear — aba...
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November 23, 2021
Jesus is inviting us to relax into the beauty he has bestowed upon us and cease striving to attain a level of smooth perfection that looks wonderful on a doll or on a magazine cover but is not attainable in the living, breathing realm of humanity. Go...
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November 3, 2021
Unveiling our beauty really just means unveiling our hearts. It’s scary, for sure. That is why it is our greatest expression of faith, because we are going to have to trust Jesus—really trust him. We’ll have to trust him that we have a beauty, that...
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October 31, 2021
You probably know what you have been afraid to entrust to God. When we surrender our fear, we are offering it to Jesus. We are saying, “This fear is too much fear for me to bear. I give it to you because I believe you are good and worthy of my trust....
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October 23, 2021
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Who do you think you are? Who are you on the road to becoming? Do you have a vision of who you could become? How does God see you? What is his v...
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October 16, 2021
In cases of suffering, you can have understanding or you can have Jesus. If you insist on understanding, you usually lose both. When suffering enters into your life, take a deep breath. The very first thing to do is to invite Jesus into it. Pray, Jes...
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October 6, 2021
The story of Eve holds such rich treasures for us to discover. The essence and purpose of a woman are unveiled here in the story of her creation. These profound, eternal, mythic themes are written not just here in the coming of Eve, but in the soul o...
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September 21, 2021
Here is another startling freedom: we are free to fail. Let me say that again. We are free to fail. Because of Jesus, we can be free from the cages of other people’s expectations, demands, yokes, and judgments — even our own. This isn’t about getting...
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September 12, 2021
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. God wants us to name things correctly, including ourselves. It’s vitally important that we do. I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for ...
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September 8, 2021
Honest communication in love is the only way to live and grow in friendships. There are ebbs and flows. There may be too much dependence. There may be real hurt and disappointment. In fact, it’s inevitable in our broken world. But with the grace of G...
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August 30, 2021
The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships. In fact, this may be the most important thing we ever learn about God — that he yearns for relationship with us...
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August 24, 2021
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Life is a journey of becoming the true you. Which means, it is a journey of the heart. Your heart is, in fact, the most important thing about...