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Posts Tagged ‘vulnerability’
Ashley Judd Gets it Right
April 11th, 2012 by Jonalyn
“The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator.” –Ashley Judd Ashley Judd recently wrote, “Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate.” I could not agree more. Patriarchy is held in place at least partially by women. [...]
Tags: beauty, body, envy, feminism, politics, vulnerability
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Why I Believe in Regrets
April 4th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I’ve met people who say they live with “no regrets.” Frankly, I just don’t get that. Doesn’t regret mean “wishing you had done something differently”? Don’t we all wish we’d done some things differently? Maybe Christians tend to be so delighted when God uses our mistakes we forget that our mistakes were, well, mis-steps. Regret [...]
Tags: family, pain, spiritual growth, vulnerability
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Who do I look like? Listening to The Hunger Games
March 28th, 2012 by Jonalyn
My mom hung a little cream placard with blue letters in our kitchen. Growing up I’d read it often, “You are who you are when no one is looking.” It plagued me with confusion about who I really was. The me in private? or the me in public? In the movie, Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen [...]
Tags: beauty, body, envy, prejudice, reviews, vulnerability
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When Men Fall: Vulnerability as a Prerequisite for Heroes
January 25th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I believe that our beliefs about our humanity, our femininity and masculinity directly affect what we will do, how we will grow, how we will fail and how we will recover. I’ve only 200 pages left of Daniel Walker’s “God in a Brothel: An Undercover Journey into Sex Trafficking and Rescue” (these are iPhone pages, [...]
Tags: feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, loving Jesus, motherhood, reviews, sex, vulnerability
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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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Bump and Stumble – Meditation on Being Good Enough
December 7th, 2011 by Jonalyn
Dale left for an unexpectedly long trip on Friday. With husband stuck in an Eastern Colorado snowstorm and the interstate officially closed I found myself getting beyond weary with my little one. I could only salute single mothers from my Facebook status, eat chocolate cake and go to bed. No blogging, no emailing. I was [...]
Tags: family, food, motherhood, spiritual growth, vulnerability
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Deaths of Playboys, Lives of Husbands
November 16th, 2011 by Jonalyn
Gunter Sachs with Brigitte Bardot – 1967 - Jean-Pierre Bonnotte/Gamma/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images I picked up the Wall Street Journal article “Death of the Playboy“ and learned that this author, Steve Garbarino was bemoaning their disappearance. The independently wealthy, smooth, womanizing playboys of yesteryear can be seen with topless models playing chess, in sports cars [...]
Tags: feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, marriage, pain, vulnerability
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