God’s bigness – thoughts from fabs

Maundy Thursday is here.

Posted on April 18, 2019 by fabsharford

Tonight @ 7 PM at Providence House, I’ll be leading a small group of folks through a guided prayer thing to help us enter into Maundy Thursday with Jesus. If you can’t join us, you can snag the audio on The In Process Collective resource page and do the experience at home.

It is Maundy Thursday, more than any other day, where I find myself in Your suffering and I am convinced of the incomparable strength of Your love. This day a couple a thousand years ago You were staring down Your worst fears.

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Words for the weary.

Posted on September 30, 2018September 30, 2018 by fabsharford

[this post is sort of a part two of what I’m processing about the Kavanaugh hearings. Read part one here.]

I have an emotional hang over.

What a week.

I lay in bed last night, unable to watch TV or read because even escaping felt like too hard. My soul was weary. Deeply tired. I felt emotionally beat-up by the week.

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Plants that grow in houses and darkness that lives in love.

Posted on August 21, 2018August 21, 2018 by fabsharford

In an old house I used to live in, there were weeds that nestled right up to the walls. They wrapped around the house, seemingly seeking to hold it, when really they sought to strangle it. I have always thought of my failure this way, the darkness in me. Snuggled right up next to who I am, but unable to infect it.

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What does God say about women? [Women’s Thing Part II]

Posted on June 16, 2018 by fabsharford

[We had Women’s Thing last week (was that just last week??) Folks asked for a recording, which obvi, I failed to create. But I figured I’d do a quick series of blog posts to try to recap what we covered and why we even did this thing. Part 1 is here!]

In Part 1 we talked about how God has asked us to stop molding ourselves to what culture says about us, and instead, believe what God says.

What do the cultures you’re a part of tell you about women?

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What are you waiting for?

Posted on May 18, 2018May 18, 2018 by fabsharford

Is it new? This restless longing? I’m like a horse in the starting gate, waiting for someone to tell me it’s time to run.

I’ve been working on a thing. (I’ve worked on so many things, building out places and spaces and resources is as much a part of me as the fingers that type out my thoughts as fast as I can think them.) But now, I’m been working on a thing that I will invite you into. I’m calling it The In Process Collective.

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