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Beloved?

Posted by Deborah Woo on Mar 06, 2018

  As I approached my thirtieth birthday in December, I was anxious a big existential crisis might hit. I kept thinking, “Well, I didn’t really have a quarter-life crisis at twenty-five like a lot of my friends did, so I’m probably overdue…”  But the...

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Tags: beloved, chosen, control, faith, identity, plans, tenth avenue north

My Need to Control

Posted by David Alvarez on Feb 13, 2018

  “We discover the art of packaging our self. What begins a role we play becomes an identity. Our masks have become our reality; and we have become our lives.” – psychologist David Benner, The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery As we explore the...

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Tags: affirmation, anxiety, control, coping, false self, identity, people-pleasing

God’s Adventure

Posted by Kyle Guerrero on Jun 06, 2017

  When I was in elementary school in the late 70s, The Cave of Time and Sunken Treasure were the books to have. The books were from an extensive series called Choose Your Own Adventure. I loved opening up these books to start an adventure. They were written in second person, with me, the...

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Tags: adventure, author, control, donald miller, life, plans, purpose, story

Rays of Hope (Visual Art)

Posted by Denise Tsang on Feb 09, 2016

    By Denise Tsang, Copic sketch marker and pencil The last two months have felt like a whirlwind. From full-blown yelling matches with parents to a friend's abrupt decision to leave our ministry team, I felt completely helpless and at the mercy of circumstances beyond...

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Tags: art, control, fears, hope, jesus, redemption, storm, copic sketch marker

Saying Yes: Allowing Jesus to Heal and Restore

Posted by on Aug 12, 2014

  A little over a month ago, I did something that felt unusual and unnerving, especially for a workaholic like myself. I took a Sabbath. No, not one of those yearlong ones during which I’d don a robe and check into a monastery. Just a half-day one. Having recently wrapped up a...

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Tags: sabbath, busyness, rest, willingness, control, soul, healing

Letting Go of Old Wineskins

Posted by on May 20, 2014

  “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he...

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Tags: anxiety, faith, control, surrender, relationships, new life

Learning to Let Go

Posted by on Mar 25, 2014

  A few weeks ago, I took my son to the DMV for his driver’s license test. When I got out of the car and exchanged places with his examiner, a profound sense of anxiety swept over me like a wave. For a moment, I was transported to an earlier phase of life. It felt eerily like...

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Tags: faith, letting go, control, diligence, good shepherd, anxiety
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Estuary: a body of water with one or more streams flowing into it and a connection to the open sea

Estuaries is a public space for individuals who call The River their home to express and reflect on their own personal stories of God in their lives. We recognize that we are each a work in progress, and that our spiritual journeys are as unique and diverse and that through sharing our stories, we hope to recognize, celebrate, reflect on, and lament the joys and struggles of following Jesus.

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