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K.J. Ramsey
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there are places of healing into which you cannot travel without the map of a human face turned toward yours with compassion for all the hard steps that have brought you here today. there are footpaths of freedom onto which you cannot roam without t
Detach from every dynamic that draws you into frequent fighting —for you were made for flourishing. Someone else’s opinion —of you, and of others— doesn’t get to override operating out of your gifting and your unshakabl
I almost gave up. I traced the topography to plot out places where the elevation matched the moisture needed for goodness to grow for this season, this climate, this land. I’m living somewhere new, but I thought my old knowledge would make i
Today was A DAY. After bearing witness to the beautiful tenderness of my clients today in particularly brutal things, these words from #BookOfCommonCourage feel just right (swipe): Your tender heart is not a liability or immaturity. Your tender he
Some of you have been labeled unhealthy and unruly, when really, you were just courageous enough to grow as large as you were created to be. Yesterday morning, a group of friends gathered around our table for what I have affectionately named Not Ch
🏡 We bought our first house! 😭🙌🏌 One week ago we moved to Colorado Springs, and we couldn’t be more grateful. Owning a home is a dream I wasn’t sure would ever be possible for us. Five years ago we stepped down from serving at a chu
You do not need to think your way to faith  fierce enough to frighten  fragility into a footnote. You do not need to lace  your lips with lustrous prayers or pound your chest in penance for the puzzle of your pain. You do not need to
I’ve had prayers thrust on me like daggers to cut away the distress of my diseases as though faith is the fine edge of a blade we take to our brokenness. No unasked for prayer has ever lifted my burden or vanished my vulnerability. But every