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Kindling Imagination for Kingdom Anticipation

The Warren & The World Vol 12, Issue 39

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I have a random interest in those genealogical shows that highlight some celebrity finding out about their family history. I like them when I know who the celebrity is. I like them when I don’t know. There are a bunch of old episodes of some of them on YouTube, and from time to time, I deep dive on them, discovering what life was like in a workhouse in the 1830s or the details of someone’s Italian ancestor’s brush with the mob. In the midst, I find that I learn more about the lives of people in eras and places I don’t know, so perhaps it’s not all a lost cause.

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5 Ways to Reduce Stress During Anxious Days

Ann Voskamp considers how to counter anxiety.

  • As I fed our little flock of sheep this morning, as I piled and fluffed the hay and they calmly chewed, as I carried the buckets of grain and our ewes and one fine ram ate and deeply drank,  I kept thinking of the ways of the Good Shepherd’s own little flock calmly lives into the spacious, non-anxious presence of God and these 5 gentle movements of grace to reduce stress during any anxious days: 
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Be Perfect

Ross Byrd considers Christ’s command.

  • When I was a kid, I remember getting excited any time I came across something in the Bible I actually understood. It was like a buried treasure unearthed. Now that I’m older I find I get most excited about the parts I absolutely do not understand. Each mysterious passage reminds me just how deep the well goes. And I don’t have to delve into the minor prophets to find them. Here’s one right in the middle of the most famous sermon of all time:
    “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48)
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Two Cozy Chapter Books

Janie at Redeemed Reader reviews two new chapter books for younger middle grade.

  • Two new Chapter Books about Beti, Stella, and Marigold celebrate the simple joys of seasons and siblings.
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The Power of What You’re Already Doing

Sarah Mackenzie encourages homeschooling moms in their work of parenting.

  • As homeschooling moms, we often focus more on what we’re not doing than what we are doing. We fret about the lessons we should be teaching or the projects we should be creating.
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A Warning About Having Children

Jessica Burke speaks with the expertise of parenthood about a new public health advisory.

  • The surgeon general recently issued a new public health advisory. Forget pandemics or toxic substances; this time the source of this warning is likely sleeping under the same roof as you. The culprit: your own kids. According to the surgeon general’s report, the mental toll of raising children is “an urgent public health issue.” 
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Pie: A Tale Full of Sweet Inspiration

Rebecca LeVake introduces a lovely book wrapped up in a little title.

  • I have never really appreciated pie the way I should. But it is not entirely my fault. I wasn’t exposed to great pie making as a kid. My mom wasn’t into pie, and my grandmother, who, I am told, was a great pie maker in her day, grew a tad lazy in her later years. My memory is that she’d take a premade shell, fill it with instant chocolate pudding, slather it with Cool Whip, and call that Chocolate Cream Pie. If that was pie, I was not impressed. 
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Something to Do with Your Kids

Here’s a fun fall craft that can decorate your closest magnetic surface, too!

Something to Watch

If you were exactly the right age with exactly the right friends at exactly the right few years in history, you remember Homestar Runner. I’m delighted that the videos are on YouTube, and my all-time favorite Strong Bad email is “Lures & Jigs.”

Thanks for reading. We’re on your side. 

–The Story Warren Team

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