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Love Shows Up
A reflection on offering presence during someone else’s storm, even while learning to heal yourself 🕯️Looking back at these photos now, I see something I could not fully recognise at the time. Two women sitting at a table covered in paint, colour, scraps of paper, and the small joyful chaos that creative moments often bring.…
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You’re Not in Trouble
A gentle unravelling of old fear when grace speaks a sentence the heart has longed to hear. 🕯️ There are moments when a single sentence reaches deeper than years of explanation. While reading Leading from the Stop, I came across a simple line: “You’re not in trouble.” The words were small. Quiet. Almost ordinary. Yet…
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When Someone Disappears Without Goodbye
A reflection on the quiet grief of relationships that end without explanation, and how God gently heals unfinished places 🕯️There is a particular kind of loss that rarely receives a name. It is not the loss of death. It is not the clear ending of a relationship through conflict or decision. It is quieter than…
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A Facility to Facilitate
A prayerful longing to enlarge the tent and steward generational restoration in His perfect timing 🕯️ ✍️ 📖 🕊️ 🪨 🌱 On Sunday, a simple phrase settled deeply into our hearts: a facility to facilitate. It was more than practical language about buildings or space. It felt like invitation. It felt like Isaiah 61 stirring…
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This Is My Story — Coming Home to My Name
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A Ray of Joy in the Productivity Zone
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The Ministry of Helps
A quiet faithfulness in unseen places, where love folds towels and presence becomes prayer 🕯️ ✍️ 📖 🕊️ 🪨 🌱 There are moments that never make the stage, never carry a microphone, never come with applause. They unfold in the quiet rhythm of obedience that no one schedules and no one celebrates. For the second…
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Laying Down What I Love to Take Up My Calling
When surrender costs something precious, yet obedience opens the way for destiny Last week I finally stepped out in obedience and messaged Peter about God’s prompting regarding the worship team. This marks the closing of a four-year chapter since I first joined the team, a season that has quietly shaped me in ways I am…
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Live2Lead Reflections — What Leading from the Stop Taught Me
How healing reshaped my understanding of success and influence 🕯️ ✍️ Leadership is often spoken about in terms of strategy, influence, and impact. Live2Lead invites us to think bigger, grow stronger, and steward responsibility well. Yet for me, leadership has never been merely a professional framework. It has been deeply personal. There are books you…
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When the Pencil Becomes a Prayer
A quiet returning — how drawing restores the body, steadies the emotions, and makes room for God’s gentle nearness 🕯️ There are moments when words feel too heavy, too clumsy, or simply unavailable. In those moments, the hand often knows what the heart cannot yet say. Drawing becomes a quiet invitation to slow down, to…
Patrizia Schwartz
a.k.a. Trixi
