I’m not an expert, just a person who’s made some really bad decisions and then worked really hard to get healthy again. and again. and again.

I have no answers, just a desire to focus in the right direction.

Impulse is a series that will explore what the right direction might look like. Throughout the series we’ll look at what some of the experts have to say. We’ll share our stories of success and failure.

If you struggle like I do, please join me. If you’ve got it figured out, please contact me! In fact, please contact me either way and jump into the conversation. We are all in this together!

cindy@unrulyhope.com.

If you hope for something, you may get it, you may not. If you have hope, you open up the world.

The holidays are a time of reflection, and for some of us, it’s tough. Personally after 12 years of preparing for Christmas Eve worship, I find myself oddly still.

Church staff will get this – and if you don’t, even better – it’s weird not worrying about the candles! Has the order arrived? Are they ready? What’s your choice this year…paper or plastic drip protectors?

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All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”). – Matthew 1:22-23

I’m working my first retail job and I’ve discovered a new conversation:

Yesterday the Christmas rush exhausted me. “I’m right there with you!” a friend said.

A customer told me she had worked retail for many years. “It’s so frustrating when people mess everything up!” she said. “I’m right there with you!”

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