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12 Upside-Down New Year’s Resolutions for 2020

by Heidi Petak CommunicationFaithGrace

I love New Year's Resolutions. Writing down my wide-eyed dreams for the next 365 days gives me great hope. But then, I hate New Year's Resolutions. Because around the middle of April I realize just how pie-in-the-sky they really were.  So, ...

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Calling Out Racial Bias (Kindly)

by Heidi Petak CommunicationCommunityFriendship

Choose wisely. Sometimes we have days, even weeks, to anticipate the choices we will make in a difficult conversation.  Other times the opportunity is suddenly before us and we tiptoe trepidatiously into unknown waters.  The latter was the setting for K ...

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VIDEO: A Reading From The Christmas Song

by Heidi Petak FaithGraceGratitude

On Christmas Eve, during the worship services at The Ascent Church, I read a piece from The Christmas Song, a musical I wrote for Brentwood-Benson in 2010.  I've posted the video below (thanks for my 8-year old son for being my videographer and my husband ...

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Pink Party Power: Poured Into to Pour Out

by Heidi Petak Breast CancerCancerCommunication

As we bring another Breast Cancer Awareness month to a close, I’m remembering… Cindy. Seven years ago, just a few days before my scheduled preventative bilateral mastectomy, a woman I hardly knew named Cindy Kreidel threw me a “Pink Party.” Complete wit ...

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A Response to the Nashville Statement Fallout

by Heidi Petak CommunicationCommunityFaith

To me, it is a line woven with love, with roses and morning glories with all sorts of pleasures inside Breathe-deep pleasures that delight the mind, body, and soul Feeding relationships, health, beauty, deliciousness Because the Line-Weaver knows that on ...

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A Lot Like Skydiving

by Heidi Petak CommunicationCommunityFaith

It feels a lot like skydiving, a bucket-list item my husband Brian and I checked off a few weeks ago, jumping out of a perfectly good plane at 14,000 feet into the unknown. Blue sky above, sea level far below. Wind slams violently against your skin, eyes ...

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Hate Has No Place Here

Dinner in the Liberal Lion’s Den

by Heidi Petak CommunicationCommunityFriendship

“HATE HAS NO PLACE HERE,” their buttons blared from their jacket lapels as they stood at Kellie’s back door. I recoiled. Clearly, the liberal couple wore the buttons to make a statement against me, the conservative guest who voted for Trump, right? I resi ...

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Kellie’s Visit to Nashville Brings New Perspective

by Heidi Petak CommunicationCommunityFaith

Her eyes are piercing blue, an azure mix of intensity and compassion. I watch as she engages with my tribe- a tribe that holds a worldview so unlike her own, asks, listens, wonders, seeks, probes, gives. Kellie had arrived the day before, smiling and hop ...

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11 Upside-Down New Year’s Resolutions

by Heidi Petak CommunicationCommunityFaith

I love New Year's Resolutions. Writing down my wide-eyed dreams for the next 365 days gives me great hope. But then, I hate New Year's Resolutions. Because around the middle of April I realize just how pie-in-the-sky they really were. Take my recurring a ...

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What Christmas is All About

by Heidi Petak CommunicationCommunityFaith

  I'm done. Done rushing, done shopping, done stressing. I'm now taking deep breaths to remember what Christmas is all about. To rest in the beauty and grace of God. To read the story in Luke 2, to gaze at the manger, wonder at God's strange way to ...

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