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The Christmas Letter This year, I sent out my first Christmas letter. That might not sound like much. People do it all the time. But if you know anything about my story—about how life smacked me in the face the moment I left my parents’ house and handed me a bill I had no idea Read more
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Tending A Companion Piece to “What is a Mother Without Children?” You want to know how this museum works. You want to know when I built each room, whether this building is real or imagined, what my medical history entails, how many years I tried, whether I’m married, if I have a name beyond “curator.” Read more
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When Your Gut Knows What Your Heart Won’t Accept Sometimes the most devastating betrayals come not from enemies, but from the people who convince you they’re your closest allies. I was sitting in that dimly lit restaurant, watching Eugenia’s mouth move as she laid out evidence with receipts and screenshots, when I realized I’d been Read more
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Blueprints in the Wilderness: The Karen and Albert Story Legal Disclaimer: The following is my retelling of events from my perspective and memory. Names have been changed for privacy. Any mention of companies, including Mattress Firm, reflects solely my individual experience and should not be construed as representative of the company as a whole. The Read more
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The Journey to Peace “Though He slay me, yet I will trust in Him.” – Job 13:15 Chapter 4: The Great Surrender When everything false is finally stripped away When Tim left, it wasn’t just another heartbreak—it was the final blow that sent me crashing back into nothingness. Everything I thought I had rebuilt, every Read more
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Prologue: Letters of Gratitude to My Past “Sometimes the most painful detours become the most sacred destinations.” There are stories we tell ourselves about our past—narratives that cast certain people as villains and certain circumstances as tragedies. But time has a way of rewriting those stories, of revealing the hidden blueprints that were being drawn Read more
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The raw, unfiltered entry from June 29, 2014 This is the final piece of my Y.W.A.M story—the blog post I wrote roughly 5-8 months after leaving the program. I’ve shared my processed reflections in previous posts, but this is the raw, unfiltered entry exactly as my 18-year-old self wrote it in 2014. Reading it now, Read more
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Blog posts from inside the system, 2013-2014 Picture, if you will, a young woman sitting at her laptop in the summer of 2013, her fingers dancing across keys with the kind of unbridled enthusiasm that only comes from believing you’re exactly where God wants you to be. She writes with exclamation points scattered like confetti, Read more
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A journey from self-blame to self-truth An Introduction Recently, someone asked me to share my Y.W.A.M (Youth With A Mission) story. I started to tell it casually, the way you might mention any difficult chapter from your past, but I quickly realized the story was too long, too layered, too important to be compressed into Read more
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Welcome to Steadfast Sanity Where ancient wisdom meets modern truth A Note from Rachael Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome to my corner of the internet—a place I’ve named with intention and deep meaning: Steadfast Sanity. Perhaps you knew me from my old blog, “Rachael Around The World,” where I documented my missionary adventures with the wide-eyed Read more
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