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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Dec 30, 20203 min read
Year of Love Stories
It will be remembered as a year of love stories, too. Intertwined like the verses of Old Testament poetry. Woo and woe. Tears and...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Dec 22, 20203 min read
To Love and To Cherish
Do you know the scene at the end of A Christmas Carol—Ebenezer Scrooge, waking Christmas morning, giddy with relief? That was my husband...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Dec 16, 20204 min read
Christmas Conspiracy
There’s something going on here, and it’s not what you might think. Not conspiracy theory. I’m not about that. More like prophecy being...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Dec 1, 20203 min read
Advent Waiting
One of my current writing projects is Bible curriculum for Montessori students. My college best friend, Michelle, is the director of...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Nov 23, 20203 min read
Thank Offerings
Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High, and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Nov 11, 20204 min read
Fake News
My mom—the day before she drove herself two hours from southern Minnesota to a Twin Cities hospital, where she was admitted due to two...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Nov 7, 20203 min read
What Now?
I was seven verses into a Psalm before I remembered. It was Election Day. Somehow I’d managed to brew a pot of coffee, and take a longish...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Oct 30, 20203 min read
Curses
“It’s a blessing with one tiny little curse.” This was Grant’s comment regarding parents with lake property. He’d just helped his dad...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Oct 28, 20202 min read
He's Generous with Me
A beautiful thing happened this week, a gift from God. It started while we were still at the townhouse, last days of sharing space with...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Oct 14, 20203 min read
52 Twice Over
I am in my final weeks of being fifty-two—for the second straight year. LOL. But no kidding. A whole year I’d been aging myself until...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Oct 6, 20203 min read
Repenting (& Retiring)
There is a difference between repentance and confession. I learned this (again) this past week. It started with my last blog post, about...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Sep 30, 20204 min read
Not Retiring
I was with friends and family last weekend, when the topic of my recent “resignation” came up. A brother-in-law asked about my decision,...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Sep 22, 20203 min read
Perseverance
If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength! Proverbs 24:10 It was everywhere in my readings this morning. Proverbs....
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Sep 8, 20203 min read
Not Worried
“My friends say there will be a civil war after the election.” My youngest son, visiting from college, looks up from his fish taco to...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Aug 25, 20203 min read
Resignation
I sat in silence in my church office, Thursday evening, cleaning out file folders, unused and expired, and I don’t know when I’ve ever...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Aug 20, 20203 min read
Scandalous
After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Jul 28, 20204 min read
Your Kingdom Come. At Camp.
“You talked a lot about the upside-down kingdom.” Stephen remembers out loud, at the lake on Friday. My brother is there with his family...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Jun 11, 20203 min read
Listening, Learning, Lamenting, Loving...
I’ve been weirdly hopeful this week. Like maybe these things that look like breaking are really rebuilding. Maybe this chaos is really...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
Jun 2, 20203 min read
Take a Knee
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven… Hasn’t this prayer become our heart’s cry in all this world’s mess?...
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Sonya Leigh Anderson
May 22, 20204 min read
It's Not Political
Yikes. This whole COVID thing has me grappling with politics, which believe me, is not my MO. I am, for better or worse, quite content to...
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