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Does it Seem Futile?

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It's time to leave the beach, and I dread making the announcement. The beach has become a reprieve for me in the busy days of parenting our three little boys. They were born within three years, so we never had time to store the stroller. I just kept squeezing them in and strapping them on—the youngest in the proper seat, the middle son curled into the fabric basket beneath it, and the oldest straddling the stroller's canopy. Aside from a few squabbles over the good goggles and the buckets … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bible Stories, Easter, Motherhood

A Monumental Christmas

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A few years ago, I was driving around town doing the after-school shuffle. I dropped off my youngest at swim team and rushed to the middle school to pick up my middle son. One of his friends needed a ride, so I gladly ran him home. I planned to return library books and pick up a prescription before heading home for supper. I was zipping around town, feeling super productive and on top of my taxi-mom game. So, I was slightly annoyed when the large red pickup in front of me slowed to a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advent, Bible Stories, Books, Christmas

God, what are you waiting for?

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A dear friend of mine is about to plunge herself into a spiritual challenge of heroic proportions. The problem is, she doesn't realize it. Right now, she's just doing what's in front of her and planning her next step of obedience. When I visited with her about increased responsibility, exponential stress, and a zillion "what ifs," I found myself wishing she had someone to help her. For various reasons, the kind of help I can offer her is limited. She needs more, and I cannot provide … [Read more...]

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One More Important Cancellation

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Is your Easter Sunday going to look a little different this year? Every year on Easter Sunday, our extended family begins our resurrection celebration with a sunrise service. At the end of a low-maintenance gravel road, 20-30 people--depending on the unpredictable spring weather—gather on the highest point in town. Strangely, or perhaps fittingly, the highest point of this village, nestled in the grasslands of the Midwest, is in the cemetery. On the coldest mornings, we huddle beside a … [Read more...]

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What’s Your Love Story?

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Every year around this time, especially when I'm pondering what to write about "love," I'm bombarded with song lyrics from the soundtrack of my teen years. Most of them come from pop songs I recorded on cassette with my single-speaker boom box. In so many of the lyrics about love, questions surround the concept. Questions about Love "What is love?" Haddaway asked, and has asked repeatedly for two decades. "What's love got to do with it?" lamented Tina Turner with her signature hair … [Read more...]

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HI THERE!

I’m Shauna, and I help worn-out Christians find permanent rest and relief by retelling gospel stories that highlight Jesus’ kindness toward ordinary people like us.

In my books and on this blog, I weave history, theology, and fictional detail into a fresh retelling of familiar Bible stories. I started writing them because I needed them. When I shared my stories, people said they made the Bible come to life.

If you could use some permanent rest and relief, download my free Bible story devotional.

 

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On a Sunday night two millennia ago, two disciples On a Sunday night two millennia ago, two disciples walked away from everything they had hoped for. ⠀⠀
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In “Remarkable Hope: When Jesus Revived Hope in Disappointed People,” I imagined what it might have been like for two downcast disciples on the road to Emmaus to finally realize their guest was not a stranger but their Savior. (For context read Luke 24:13-34. For clarity, I called the unnamed disciple Isaac.)⠀⠀
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“[Their Guest] smiled, lifted the bread from the plate, turned his face heavenward, and began to thank God. He prayed as though conversing with a friend or a father. The prayer was familiar, but different. With the “Amen,” he tore the loaf. Crumbs scattered on the table like manna sprinkled on the desert floor. Reaching across the table, he served steaming pieces to Isaac and Cleopas. Cleopas slid the bread from his hand as if pulling a drawer. He froze. In their guest’s palm, tender skin, freshly scarred, formed an almond shape, as if it had been pierced. Cleopas gasped. Isaac leaned forward. They stole a glance at one another, groping for words. ⠀⠀
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The kitchen fire snapped. Isaac’s father gulped wine. A loaf of bread thumped as it dropped and rattled a plate. He was gone. Cleopas scrambled to his feet. The table jostled as Isaac pushed himself away. His mother stood in the doorway holding a plate of meat at an angle, broth running onto the floor. A goblet rolled in circles on the floor as Isaac’s father stammered questions he couldn’t finish. ⠀⠀
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“It was him,” Isaac whispered.⠀⠀
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{Excerpted from “Remarkable Hope” by Shauna Letellier Copyright © 2019 pp. 178-179 FaithWords} Available at your favorite online retailer.
What we remember on Good Friday and celebrate on E What we remember on Good Friday and celebrate on Easter is the radical demonstration that Jesus has done for us what we cannot do for ourselves. He lived a life you and I are not capable of. He laid in a tomb that should have been ours. And when God raised him to life on what we now call Easter, all the riches of Christ’s perfect life and death were made available to unremarkable people. People like you and me: ⠀ ⠀⠀
People who hold on to things we ought to let go. ⠀⠀
People who worry their worship is a disappointment. ⠀⠀
People whose frantic service can never deserve God’s love. ⠀⠀
People with a life chock-full of rugged rebellion. ⠀⠀
And people who can’t yet bring themselves to publicly declare their allegiance to Christ. ⠀⠀
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Jesus died for people like you and me, and he was raised so we don't have to stay that way.⠀⠀
~Remembering Holy Week⠀⠀
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The thief on the cross is the perfect example of a The thief on the cross is the perfect example of a dependent sinner. This man, perhaps more than any of us, understood that spending eternity with God comes by believing Jesus and accepting undeserved favor. He had no other choice. ⠀⠀
That kind of unabashed dependence on Jesus is the essence of faith—the link that binds our desperate need with his unlimited grace. Dependence on Christ is our only option. It is also the greatest gift. ⠀⠀
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Sometimes Jesus miraculously changes circumstances Sometimes Jesus miraculously changes circumstances, as he did for Simon and Lazarus. Sometimes he miraculously changes hearts and minds, as he did for Martha. Either way, we can’t categorically forget the past. Though we have been liberated from striving and sin, we can still remember how we used to operate. ⠀ ⠀⠀
Holy forgetfulness allows those memories to become a memorial to the sacred starting point of Christ’s work in our lives. The contrast of then and now points to the transformation Christ initiated, and we are glad to give him the credit. Whether we honor him with a banquet, a song, or quiet gratitude, a life undeniably transformed by Jesus naturally overflows with love and honor for him.⠀⠀
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Jesus gladly accepts our feeble attempts to honor Jesus gladly accepts our feeble attempts to honor him, no matter how weak or flawed our worship might seem to us. That kind of acceptance frees us to worship him without reserve. ⠀ ⠀⠀
We might be disappointed with our own attempts. Maybe your efforts were misunderstood. Maybe you missed a note. Maybe the words didn’t come out right. But when it comes to worship and a genuine desire to honor Jesus, he is not grading your performance. He is accepting your love—no matter how embarrassed you might be about what you have to offer.⠀⠀
~ Remembering Holy Week⠀⠀
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“When we relinquish the wild things to Jesus, we “When we relinquish the wild things to Jesus, we can rest beneath his smile, and we can glimpse what he meant by an easy yoke and a light burden. The end result will be unbridled worship for The One who initiated the exchange." ~ Remembering Holy Week.⠀
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