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Chasing the Beautiful

Disappointment & Heartbreak.

processing my way through the loss of church leadership

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Melody Dowlearn
Aug 23, 2024
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I wrote an entire post. I read it. I pondered it. I deleted it.

I waited a few weeks. And I sat down to re-write what I had deleted.

In the pondering, a father of the faith unexpectedly passed away.

pair of brown leather lace-up boots
Photo by Radek Skrzypczak on Unsplash

God dropped this man into my life in 2020 and used him to heal and reconcile damage done by church leadership. Th…

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