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Try softer on the journey

Lynne Baab • Wednesday October 29 2025

“If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.” —Lily Tomlin

“Trying softer isn’t about knowing or doing the right thing; it’s about being gentle with ourselves in the face of pain that is keeping us stuck. Because no matter how hard we try, we can’t hate or shame ourselves into change. Only love can move us toward true growth. This is the love given to us by a gentle, kind, compassionate, good God — and the love we are invited to give ourselves too.” —Aundi Kolber, Try Softer [1]

A part of my healing journey from binge eating (described in my new book) involved learning about the research...

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Hope on the journey

Lynne Baab • Tuesday October 21 2025

In 2010 and 2011, I had a strange medical adventure: weird symptoms, months of medical tests with nothing of note, then healing through prayer by a team of church elders. After that miracle of physical healing, the only one I’ve ever experienced, you’d think I would have been euphoric. Or filled with faith, hope, and love from God. Instead, I felt numb and hopeless, such a weird response.

I decided to start a “hope project.” I bought myself a ring with anchors on it. “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul” (Hebrews 6:19). For the next year, I watched...

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Shalom on the journey

Lynne Baab • Thursday October 16 2025

The Apostle Paul is interested in relational harmony and peace among Christians. “Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another” (Colossians 3:12, 13). Paul also longs for internal harmony and peace. “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. . . . For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do” (Romans 7:15, 19).

Paul’s inner turmoil has been so comforting to me....

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Common discovery on the journey

Lynne Baab • Tuesday September 30 2025

Samuel Wells writes that trying to be inclusive and trying to exercise hospitality can have overtones of pride and control because we are the ones doing the action. Instead of using the terms “inclusive” or “hospitable,” he suggests,

“A better term might be common discovery — something we more readily appreciate when we’re away from our own familiar territory. It’s not, ‘You can belong in my club because I’m generous.’ It’s, ‘Being with you is showing me there’s something beyond us both, toward which we’re each heading, and to which I’m realizing you’re in many ways closer than I am. Let’s make...

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