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Posts Tagged ‘friendship’
Fight Fair: How to Argue Without Destroying Others (and Yourself)
March 7th, 2012 by Jonalyn
My parent’s celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary last weekend with a trip to Disneyland. I got a text of my mother riding Space Mountain with my tall father beside her. They were smiling in glee. I feel their faithfulness to each other remains a diamond-gift to their four children. When I got married over 10 [...]
Tags: friendship, marriage, spiritual growth
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Poor Start for Friends
February 29th, 2012 by Jonalyn
When I first moved to Virginia I knew I needed friends. It was easy to find girls like me. That’s a rock solid foundation for a friendship: similar interests. I found a friend, call her Debbie, who loved French class and good tea, talking theology and breaking out of the box in loving Jesus. She [...]
Tags: friendship, pain
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Gifts of Vulnerability for Christmas
December 21st, 2011 by Jonalyn
To my faithful ~ Dale and I have come to a deeply practical, life-giving understanding. I look forward to sharing in a future post how our new set-up has changed all of us, including Finn. This turning of a new leaf will be an appropriate bit of sharing for the New Year. For now, I [...]
Tags: friendship, loving Jesus, motherhood, vulnerability
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Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk
September 28th, 2011 by Jonalyn
Have you found it difficult to talk to others about your faith? Dale and I realized we needed to think harder and write more on this subject. A few years I authored “Boutique Religion” a Fledge series (spiritual formation articles on how to be Positively Human) with tips on communicating Jesus’ message to those we [...]
Tags: apologetics, friendship, reviews, spiritual growth, writing/speaking
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Talking to Young Girls
August 10th, 2011 by Jonalyn
When you meet a little girl, one wrapped in pink tulle or a quirky, bold hat, what do you say? “What a fun hat!”, ”Look at your dress, you look so sweet in that!” Her blue eyes sparkle and I’m IN. They want to talk to me. All for an easily spoken, easily created compliment [...]
Tags: beauty, body, friendship
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Golden Hands and Exotic Poles
March 2nd, 2011 by Jonalyn
Being a little more than a quarter Hispanic, given the multi-ethnic look of so many models, it’s be easy to assume that it’s the Mexican blood that has the potential to make me exotic. But, if exotic means strikingly unusual, then the most unusual bit of me isn’t Mexican, it’s Polish. My short grandmother is [...]
Tags: beauty, family, feminin/masculin-ity, friendship, loving Jesus, marriage, motherhood, politics, reviews, spiritual growth
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Evangelistic Tagging and Female Friends
October 17th, 2010 by Jonalyn
So these two ideas are not necessarily related, but they do summarize 2 writing projects (one small and one big) I’ve been working on. As I’m writing in several places, I thought it would be good for your sanity and organization to know that this blog will keep you updated on new places to read [...]
Tags: apologetics, friendship, Gender Studies, writing/speaking
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