by Ali Kennedy | Feb 26, 2024 | Fuel for Coaching, Fuel for Maturing Faith
“Be curious, not judgmental.” This statement (attributed to Walt Whitman) hit me like a ton of bricks the other day without warning. It felt like a gentle charge to flip the script of the all too familiar climate of judgment in which we are living. The climate where...
by Ali Kennedy | Feb 26, 2024 | Fuel for Maturing Faith, Fuel for Singles
“All I know is that I want to achieve great things in this world.” One of my beloved mentees uttered these words with gusto during one of our monthly lunch dates. I took a bite of my salad and chewed for a moment on what she had said. Then a question suddenly bubbled...
by Ali Kennedy | Feb 26, 2024 | Fuel for Maturing Faith
I was talking with a friend who recently moved to Asia (where I live) from North America. She was telling me how increasingly difficult is is to be a Christian there. She said people frequently looked at her like an “alien invader” when referring to her faith in...
by Ali Kennedy | Feb 26, 2024 | Fuel for Maturing Faith
I am continually amazed at how fast my 4th child is growing. One day he is a motionless sleeping ball of soft, squishy flesh with nothing more than a few squeaks and squeals coming from his drooling mouth. The next day he is opening his eyes, moving his limbs,...
by Ali Kennedy | Feb 25, 2024 | Fuel for Grief, Fuel for Maturing Faith, Fuel Up Fridays, Lent/Easter
“Oh no, broken mommy, broken!” My son recently discovered that when you throw something on the floor and it breaks, it needs fixing. It is not difficult to identify a broken toy or a broken toilet, but when it comes to our spiritual lives, we often fail to...
