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Step 28: The pause in the middle.
In my current messy moment, I ask God for these two things: Grace. And peace. Outward kindness. And the inward settling of my spirit.
Kathy Gallagher
Mar 2, 202512 min read
That Partridge in your Pear Tree
No one should spend Christmas Day alone in Weed eating potato chips.
Kathy Gallagher
Dec 20, 20245 min read
Five Things
We are seeing everything with new eyes this Christmas season, because everything IS new. And also because our eyes are, well, aging.
Kathy Gallagher
Dec 9, 20244 min read
Step 25 & 26
Yesterday’s pain has built today’s muscle. We’re getting our groove back.
Kathy Gallagher
Dec 2, 20246 min read
Steps 13-21: Micro-changes.
God is merciful and gracious. He hears every prayer, even the grumpy ones.
Kathy Gallagher
Oct 5, 20249 min read
Step Ten: Choose the lemonade.
You can focus on the mosquitoes, or you can sip that lemonaid and listen to the birds.
Kathy Gallagher
Aug 7, 20244 min read
Step Seven: Pretend you're normal.
Touches of “normal” in an extremely abnormal life are both welcome and weird.
Kathy Gallagher
Jul 10, 20243 min read
Step Six: Face your giants.
Life—even life that flirts with scary stuff—is sweet and good when you have support around you.
Kathy Gallagher
Jul 7, 20245 min read
Easter has its lows and highs.
If like me you’re feeling all-too-human, you’ll understand the inner wrestling between the broken and the divine, the lows and highs of...
Kathy Gallagher
Mar 31, 20244 min read
Good Friday.
There wasn’t much that was good about that Friday. Well, maybe the self-righteous religious leaders, who somewhere along the line decided...
Kathy Gallagher
Mar 27, 20243 min read
The longest night of the year.
The darkness is advancing and the longest night of the year is coming. But so, also, is the light. I glance outside at the dark sky, and...
Kathy Gallagher
Dec 10, 20236 min read
Worship lessons.
Every bound toward me, every plaintive cry, every puppy kiss and the way her muscles relax in my presence teaches me a little more about...
Kathy Gallagher
Sep 25, 20227 min read
The Other Half of Hannah
Some people change your life forever. It’s impossible to calculate how many people have enriched and impacted me and shaped who I am over...
Kathy Gallagher
May 7, 20222 min read
Dark nights and daylight
You might want to rethink that decision you made hastily in the darkest of nights. Turns out in a dark night it’s easy to miss important...
Kathy Gallagher
Apr 2, 20222 min read
The hole in the middle of Christmas
For my friends who are grieving. I see you. At least I imagine I do. I see you walking around, looking so fine and doing Christmas. But...
Kathy Gallagher
Dec 21, 20214 min read
SAPS: Saturday Analysis Paralysis Syndrome.
I just made that up; it's not a real thing. Unless maybe you're an Enneagram Nine Wing One. Then you know exactly what I'm talking...
Kathy Gallagher
Oct 23, 20214 min read
Sunday perspective
If nesting with your journal is a luxury you have not yet discovered, let me prime the pump for you on this chilly Sunday morning!...
Kathy Gallagher
Oct 10, 20213 min read
Then and now.
It was a different time, yet the same somehow. Simpler, slower, smaller--but still with its full share of fear, disappointment,...
Kathy Gallagher
Jul 26, 202110 min read
Puppy Daze
If your story isn’t good, it’s because you haven’t arrived at the ending yet. I awoke in a daze, wondering about the odd, rhythmic,...
Kathy Gallagher
Jun 12, 20214 min read
Looking for home.
I'm feeling like I must either lose myself in the current of culture, or fight like a banshee to make the culture adapt to me. Fit or...
Kathy Gallagher
May 16, 20214 min read
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