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Moments that matter on the journey

Lynne Baab • Tuesday November 18 2025

Moments that matter on the journey

In 2014, my husband Dave and I were living in Dunedin, New Zealand. My mother would celebrate her 90th birthday in late October, so we made plans to spend a few weeks in Seattle and Tacoma around the time of her birthday. We arrived in mid-October to the blaze of red, yellow, and orange trees, highlighted against the gorgeous firs and cedars that are common here. As the weeks of our visit rolled along, the leaves started falling. In light winds, the leaves swirled and danced.

I never liked fall. For me, all those bright trees indicated that the months of darkness,...

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A guide for the journey: Pilgrim’s Progress

Lynne Baab • Tuesday November 11 2025

A guide for the journey: Pilgrim’s Progress

Liz vividly remembers the summer she was 21. She worked full-time as a youth intern at a church in Los Angeles. She, along with the three other interns and the youth pastor, spent an hour, four mornings a week, studying Pilgrim’s Progress. She found that study transformative in several ways, and she still draws on some of the lessons of that summer.

The full title of the book is The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come.  John Bunyan, an English preacher, wrote the book in 1678. It has been translated into more than 200 languages and has...

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Good versus perfect on the journey

Lynne Baab • Tuesday November 4 2025

Good versus perfect on the journey

I am trying to offer to God my willingness to pursue good rather than perfect on this wild, wonderful, and challenging journey of faith. I am asking God to help me receive love and acceptance so I can embrace the messiness of the journey of good.

These thoughts were precipitated by a podcast by Rob Bell, an author, speaker, and former pastor of a rapidly growing church in Michigan. (If you want to listen to the podcast, the material on good versus perfect begins at 9 minutes 20 seconds.)

Bell begins by discussing the creation story in Genesis 1, noting that the rhythm...

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Try softer on the journey

Lynne Baab • Wednesday October 29 2025

Try softer on the journey

“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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Meeting God in Grief and Gratitude

Lynne Baab • Wednesday January 22 2025

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Yes, Jesus Told Us to Pray in Secret. But He Also Prayed with His Friends.

Lynne Baab • Saturday October 9 2021

By Lynne M. Baab. Originally published in Christianity Today, July 8, 2021