Kristin Schell
I’m sitting at my kitchen desk, watching through the window as a FedEx truck pulls up to my neighbor’s house. Normally I wouldn’t give pause to a package being left in plain sight on their doorstep, but today is different. Today, the serial bomber in Austin, Texas is dead. The terror of deadly packages and unsuspecting tripwire, however, still looms…
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Oh Hey 2018! I see you there with all your promise and possibility. Shiny new journals and healthy new habits and bold resolutions. You temptress, you. I’m not ready. Nope. And, I’m not going to fight it either. As my friend Lara Casey says, “There’s nothing magical about January 1.” I have a celebration chaos hangover. Maybe you feel this…
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I really wanted my 2018 Word to be queso. I’ve long contended the answer to world peace must lie in a bowl of queso and salty tortilla chips. Living out a year of queso wouldn’t be easy, but I was fully prepared to surrendered myself to the job. #bodybyqueso Can I get an amen? Despite the potential for world peace,…
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“Take every opportunity to open your life and home to others.” Romans 12:13 (The Voice) I lead a ministry based on hospitality and bring people together at The Turquoise Table Community. Our key verse is Romans 12:13, in which Paul invites us to take every opportunity to open up our life and home to others. And yet, my own family’s…
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Ordinary Moments Matter I started using the phrase “gather small and love deep” long before I fully realized what it meant. Intuitively I knew the Turquoise Table was perfectly designed for four to six people—small gatherings. And being at the table, facing each other and sitting side by side, would allow an intimacy to listen and have real conversations. What…
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Hurricane Harvey Dares to Mess with Texas Our neighbors to the south — all 6.5 million of them — are suffering the wrath of Hurricane Harvey. The Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 mph made landfall on Friday near Corpus Christi ravaging the coastline. Since then, Houston and surrounding areas have been devastated by an unprecedented amount of rain…
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