Angela's Wired Words

Featured, God, Jesus, Thoughts

Hope for Election Day 2020

It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? When embarking on a year with such an epic number as 2020 – the repetition in the very number seems to make it feel important – a number equated with clear eye-sight, the standard for real vision and clarity, I know so many of us thought this year would be incredible. A year of focus, so many chose to believe. And, yet, what it has brought to every human heart is the understanding that we control so little. When the world shut down, we learned a focus we  ...

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Bible Study, Featured, Forgiveness, God, Jesus

And Yet He Loved Us

And immediately, as man became more like God, there was simultaneously a chasm between the two. Both closer and infinitely further in just one bite, or two. God could no longer meander among the world of men, as he could not wander in the sins of men. And so from heaven He watches his beautiful creation languish in its sinfulness - beauty and agony mingled together on one sphere.

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Family, Featured, Thoughts

Why This Time Feels like Breathing

Can I share what may be an unpopular opinion, that may cause some, especially my extroverted friends, to respond with, “You shut your dirty mouth!”? I’m not necessarily eager for quarantine to end. Over the past several days, I have been picking back up my planner, which I use more as a journal, and filling in the blanks from the past several weeks, documenting what we’ve done and how we’ve been feeling. But first I had to fill in the couple of weeks before  ...

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Family

Screen-Free Family Ideas

Sometimes taking a break from the usual distractions can be a challenge. What do we do now?! The following is a list of things our family has done (or wanted to try), but please don’t read it as a checklist – these are just ideas. Every family has their own rhythm and what makes them happy. The goal is to find what kinds of things your family actually enjoys doing that’s NOT in front of the television. Have your own ideas? Let’s hear ’em in the comments! Play a  ...

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