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- [Reservoir Living](https://tdc.navigators.org/2026/06/30/reservoir-living/) - My husband and I joined Navigators staff in 1989, and we’ve served with World Missions in Latin America for decades. When we returned to the U.S., I had a burning question: “How do I care for my own soul?” It wasn’t a question of how to have a quiet time or how to pray; it
- [When Devotional Time Stops Being a Routine and Becomes a Relationship](https://tdc.navigators.org/2026/06/10/when-devotional-time-stops-being-a-routine-and-becomes-a-relationship/) - From rushed devotionals to meaningful time with God, learn how contemplative practices turned a routine into a life-giving relationship.
- [Mastery and Mystery](https://tdc.navigators.org/2026/06/10/mastery-and-mystery/) - Explore how relinquishing control and embracing mystery deepens our relationship with God, moving us from striving and mastery into trust, rest, and abiding.
- [Unraveling](https://tdc.navigators.org/2026/01/05/unraveling/) - Rebekah Cornelius | Train – Develop – Care Tugging on one little thread can unravel the whole sweater—a visual that describes my relationship with grief and loss. Loss has unraveled my expectations, joy, longing, desire, rootedness, and sense of being known. I’m left stunned. How did grief and loss become a central part of my
- [Image of a Suffering God](https://tdc.navigators.org/2026/01/05/image-of-a-suffering-god/) - Cassie Thornburg | World Missions I sat in another waiting room, wondering if the doctors would be able to figure out what was going on. During the last three months of constant health issues, I’d been unable to digest much food, and my core problem was still undiagnosed. I was 25, and my health was
- [Flipping the Map](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/01/13/flipping-the-map/) - “If you flip the map over, you’ll get a bigger picture of where we are,” I suggested to my teammate. His response? “I actually like to only look at the little square.” Surprised, I mentioned that he might be missing out on a lot by seeing only one piece of the whole. But that’s my
- [Teamwork](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/01/13/teamwork/) - My idea of teaming was significantly impacted when I read the first four words of I and II Thessalonians: Paul, Silas and Timothy. Three individuals with decades of shared experience were writing a letter as a ministry team. For 47 years, I have served with ministry teams on college campuses and military bases in Massachusetts,
- [Teamwork According to Ants](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/01/13/teamwork-according-to-ants/) - Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6:6-8 A friend and I were talking about working with others. I wasn’t at all surprised when he commented, “I recently
- [Teaming in the Cities: An Interview with Patriece Johnson](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/01/13/teaming-in-the-cities-an-interview-with-patriece-johnson/) - Why is a team important to the mission of your city team? Teams are important because there are so many aspects of ministering in the city context that one person will miss. We have some amazing leaders on campus and they have a unique skill set that allows them to do that well but as
- [Conversations on Teamwork with the Collegiate Executive Team](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/01/13/conversations-on-teamwork-with-the-collegiate-executive-team/) - Noah Haas, Melissa Nugent, Ben Nugent, Deb Proctor Hosted by Norm Hubbard A good team can make or break your experience of job and ministry. During the Navigators National Collegiate Conference in 2021, Norm Hubbard interviewed the Collegiate Executive Team about some of their thoughts on teaming. Ben and Melissa Nugent, Deb Proctor, and Noah
- [Giving God Control](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/02/09/giving-god-control/) - The State of My Soul By Kathy Redmond I attended TDC’s Soul Care for Leaders Workshop day at Glen Eyrie during the 2023 Leader Summit. To my surprise… the prompts nudged me deeply and transformatively. “Write your descriptive words for the state of a healthy soul and unhealthy soul.” Perfect. I can do this exercise
- [Anxiety](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/04/12/anxiety/) - Worry. It's in our nature. We worry about our bills, our kids, our kids' friends. We worry about our kids' lack of friends. If we don't worry, our friends say, "But aren't you worried?" We figure worry isn't such a bad thing. If I worry enough, maybe it won't happen. Give worry its other name—anxiety—and
- [Worry Proven to be Highly Effective](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/04/12/worry-proven-to-be-highly-effective/) - A scientific study has revealed the significant effectiveness of worry and anxiety. It turns out that over 95 percent of the thing we worry about never occur! :) In spite of this "scientific study," we see Jesus taking a different view. In Matthew 6:25-34, He addresses the fears that often plague us. What caught my
- [A New Song](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/04/13/a-new-song/) - "How's your health, Caitlin?" This was a simple question from a caring Navigator staff woman, as we caught up during a wedding weekend in 2009. Suddenly, the room spun and I had trouble breathing. Heart racing, I lay down on her couch and tried to compose myself. What in the world just happened? I was
- [Anxiety: An Invitation to Slow Down](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/04/28/anxiety-an-invitation-to-slow-down/) - “Parang malalim yata ang iniisip mo?” (English: “Looks like you’re thinking about something deep.”) As a child, my anxiety was perceived as deep thinking. When anxiety takes hold of me, it consumes my thoughts, and often blinds me to the promise of God’s tender and infinite care for me. When I was an undergrad, I
- [Unflappable: Flying by Faith in the Face of Fear](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/04/28/unflappable-flying-by-faith-in-the-face-of-fear/) - “You’re so unflappable,” people tell me sometimes. And I laugh. Every time I choose to use my voice to say something that’s hard, I always have a level of anxiety internally before I say it. I don’t know if my anxiety will ever go away, but as a child and young adult, I allowed it
- [The Unexpected Companion](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/04/28/the-unexpected-companion/) - I will never forget my first meeting with the psychiatrist. His office was in a mental health hospital, and it was straight out of a movie… complete with a creaky gate, old brick buildings, and zombie-like patients walking the grounds in hospital gowns. After a litany of questions, the doctor diagnosed me with an anxiety
- [Naming Our Fears, Reclaiming Our Hope](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/05/05/naming-our-fears-reclaiming-our-hope/) - When I was a young father, my wife Cathy, and I moved from our settled hometown to our dream counseling graduate program in Denver. We felt thrilled and in the center of God's will. However, our then 10-year-old son, Seth, was struggling. His loneliness, isolation, and new school left him adrift. One late night, his
- [What I Wish I'd Known About Anxiety](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/06/22/what-i-wish-id-known-about-anxiety/) - For years, and I'm ashamed of this, I was the guy in the room thinking, "Oh man, not another emotional staff mess to deal with." I was 38 years old and just as stressed out and tired as anyone else (that seemed to be a pre-req for EDGE Corps at the time) but you wouldn't
- [What I Said and How I Said It](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/07/24/what-i-said-and-how-i-said-it/) - "Pastor, I don't know what to think. A loving God can't possibly think this about me, can He?" The voice on the recording belonged to a young woman who described herself as bisexual (attracted to men and women). She had been building trust with our community over the last few months and had even begun
- [Gentle and Right](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/07/24/gentle-and-right/) - "Why do you want to do this now?" my business partner asked. "it's not the right time." I sulked for a moment, then retaliated. "I've been doing most of the work all on my own for the past month. What does it matter to you when we decide to do it?" (This wasn't true but
- [Position Mixtapes](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/07/24/position-mixtapes/) - How do we know what we know? How do we determine our position, or what we believe, on various issues? We all combine different sources of knowledge in different ways, resulting in a highly personalized position mixtape. The four sources of knowledge are Scripture, personal experience, reason, and tradition. How we mix these often determines
- [Embracing Gray Spaces](https://tdc.navigators.org/2024/02/06/embracing-gray-spaces/) - “Did you know you have permission to be wrong?” my friend asked me gently. I was in the middle of a discernment process, and heaven seemed silent while anxiety tightened its viselike grip around my stomach, propelling me into a constant and gut-wrenching cycle of second-guessing. I grew up cultivating a very black-and-white faith. This
- [Don't Question the Expert](https://tdc.navigators.org/2024/02/06/dont-question-the-expert/) - For as far back as I can recall, being right has been important to me. You might say it has formed a significant part of my identity. I can remember being 10 or 11 and showing a friend how to pop popcorn (in those long-ago days before air poppers and microwaves). While the kernels burst
- [Am I Practicing an Integrated Faith?](https://tdc.navigators.org/2024/02/06/am-i-practicing-an-integrated-faith/) - After the George Floyd video hit the internet, racial tensions in the U.S. began to rise—and the Body of Christ was not excluded from this tension. People from all sides voiced their opinions, and as a Christian Black man, I found myself in many conversations about race and racism within the Church. My opinions on
- [Cheating is Wrong... Isn't It?](https://tdc.navigators.org/2024/02/06/cheating-is-wrong-isnt-it/) - SEEK TO UNDERSTAND BEFORE BEING UNDERSTOOD The first thing most missionaries learn is the mantra, “Different isn’t wrong, it’s just different.” In situations where we don’t understand others’ actions, it can be helpful to look at the ways Jesus related to people and the types of questions He asked them—He was brilliant at determining the
- [When Differences Pull Us Apart](https://tdc.navigators.org/2024/02/06/when-differences-pull-us-apart/) - I can’t help but notice that a spirit of argument and polarization seems to have taken over our world. Maybe it feels collectively harder to handle conflict because we’re tired out from the pandemic and wary of political drama, but differences of opinion have existed since the beginning of humankind. It’s important that we learn
- [Transitions and Thresholds](https://tdc.navigators.org/2024/07/22/transitions-and-thresholds/) - As soon as you hear the word transition or change, I’m sure a range of images, experiences, life stages, and emotions occur. As they signal the end of one thing and the beginning of something else, transitions also include a threshold: the “space between” that incorporates the ending of the former, the journey, and the
- [An Empty Place](https://tdc.navigators.org/2024/07/22/an-empty-place/) - With our belongings loaded onto a ship for the journey back to the U.S., I find myself sitting among the dust bunnies on the floor of our vacant Tokyo home, pondering the significance of the past 24 beautiful and complicated years. The farewells are over, our missionary roles are finished, and our friends and coworkers
- [The Reality You Feared: Practical Steps for Making it Through](https://tdc.navigators.org/2024/07/22/the-reality-you-feared-practical-steps-for-making-it-through/) - I had been crying loudly for 15 minutes. My wife was laying peacefully and mostly non-responsive in bed next to me. Cancer had been taking her life for over a year and she was days away from breathing her last breath at age 38. I was at the end of myself and had nothing left
- [Riding the Waves of Transition](https://tdc.navigators.org/2024/07/22/riding-the-waves-of-transition/) - Transitions can be hard, especially those that aren’t expected. But even for the ones we long for, there are still lessons to learn, emotions to sort out and most of all, places where we can meet with the Lord. I had always wanted to be married. In my mid 20s, friends were getting married, engaged
- [The Beauty of the Gospel in the Matters of the Heart](https://tdc.navigators.org/2024/09/23/the-beauty-of-the-gospel-in-the-matters-of-the-heart/) - We see evidence all throughout Scripture that Jesus was deeply concerned with the matters of the heart. When we take a look at the life and ministry of Christ, we discover a man who saw people in their circumstances—stepping not only into their physical realities, but also their spiritual ones. In our walks with Jesus,
- [The Voice of Belovedness and Freedom](https://tdc.navigators.org/2024/09/23/the-voice-of-belovedness-and-freedom/) - “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with your head held high” (Leviticus 26:13). As a young child, my Sunday school teacher taught me about the Good
- [Black and White to Color: Rewiring My Brain for Intimacy ](https://tdc.navigators.org/2024/09/23/black-and-white-to-color-rewiring-my-brain-for-intimacy/) - “I just wish you could connect with me better, and relate to me at a deeper level,” my wife said. It didn’t sound mad this time—but it was with heartbreaking sadness. After decades of marriage, we were once again having this weighty conversation. My dismissive attachment style wanted to run and hide as I had
- [Building Below the Waterline](https://tdc.navigators.org/2024/09/23/building-below-the-waterline/) - When surveying the landscape and mining the data around what is happening to people in positions of mission and ministry leadership, several trends become apparent. Among them are: leaders abusing their power and position leaders lacking integrity in areas of basic moral, ethical, relational, and financial matters leaders collapsing under the weight of the stress
- [Safe Spaces of Silence in Spiritual Direction](https://tdc.navigators.org/2025/04/29/safe-spaces-of-silence-in-spiritual-direction/) - By Luke Kleveland, TDC - Before COVID, I would not have imagined doing spiritual direction with anyone. In fact, if you had asked me about this five years ago, I probably would have looked at you in confusion because I didn’t really know what it was, and then with skepticism because I thought it was purely mystical stuff. Little did I know how my journey with Jesus would change my perspective.
- [The Light of Christ](https://tdc.navigators.org/2025/04/29/the-light-of-christ/) - By Amanda Torres, Collegiate - As she struck a match to light the candle for our spiritual direction session, I heard my director say the familiar words she opens with time and time again, “The Light of Christ—who is with us, for us, and in us.” I needed this simple yet profound reminder to sink in deeply on this particular day. I was 21 weeks pregnant, and it was the day after the anatomy scan where my husband and I had found out there was something wrong with our daughter’s heart.
- [Dangit, Jo!](https://tdc.navigators.org/2025/04/29/dangit-jo/) - By Lyndi Lee Markus, TDC - “Dangit, Jo!” I exclaimed to my spiritual director. Except I did not use the word dangit. I had come to our session discouraged to the point of tears, stuck in anxious thinking that left me hopeless and powerless. Her question had both lovingly and uncomfortably dislodged me from my rut. How was she so wise?
- [With Me on My Journey](https://tdc.navigators.org/2025/04/29/with-me-on-my-journey/) - By Jo Newell, TDC God walked so faithfully and kindly with me in the year following our only son Nathaniel’s death. He met me often through people, almost daily in nature, and usually through His Word. As I was approaching the first anniversary, I sensed from Him that He wanted me to seek a companion to accompany me as I continued this heartbreaking journey.
- [Mile Markers of Spiritual Formation](https://tdc.navigators.org/2025/04/29/mile-markers-of-spiritual-formation/) - By Glenn Balsis, TDC - Often I gauge my highway travel by mile markers to help me understand where I am as I drive. For my spiritual journey, I’ve realized that I need a spiritual director to help me assess those mile markers in my walk with God. Coaching, mentoring, and discipling all have valued places within my life with God, but spiritual direction has offered a unique encounter with God.
- [How Spiritual Direction Has Changed Me and My Ministry](https://tdc.navigators.org/2025/04/29/how-spiritual-direction-has-changed-me-and-my-ministry/) - By Jin Rood, World Missions - As my husband, Mark, and I were completing our final year overseas, discerning where God was leading us next, I felt drawn toward a ministry of care. A mentor suggested I explore spiritual direction, and I was immediately intrigued. This form of caregiving focuses on deepening an individual’s relationship with God. Richard Foster explains, “Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.”
- [Practical Prayer](https://tdc.navigators.org/2025/06/23/practical-prayer/) - David Erickson World Missions Spending the past twenty-two years in a pioneering Muslim context has grown my prayer life. Reading the Word? Now, that’s easy and enjoyable. But praying? That’s always been more difficult. Because I am a practical person, here are several practical takeaways from the past two decades. CONSISTENTLY. Early on, I remember
- [God Changed My View of Prayer](https://tdc.navigators.org/2025/06/23/god-changed-my-view-of-prayer/) - Peggy Reynoso Train – Develop – Care I had a love-hate relationship with prayer. For most of my life, God spoke to me sporadically, usually in times of great need or longing. He also spoke to me regularly through His written Word. And then there were the nudges of the Holy Spirit, but I was
- [Just Be: A Letter on Prayer to a Younger Me](https://tdc.navigators.org/2025/06/23/just-be-a-letter-on-prayer-to-a-younger-me/) - Lyndi Markus Editor-in-Chief for UpFront Dear younger me, You’re newish to praying— a little green, a little naive, but so expectant— and I can still feel You put so much pressure on yourself to do it right. You pray for protection— you thank God for good days. You ask God to save loved ones who don’t
- [The Power of One Voice: Embracing Collective Prayer Practices](https://tdc.navigators.org/2025/06/23/the-power-of-one-voice-embracing-collective-prayer-practices/) - Jane Menning City Director | Minneapolis and St. Paul A few years ago, Adam Johnson, our ISM leader in Minneapolis, invited our staff team to pray like many churches around the world do—in one voice, or what the Koreans call tongsung kido. We were all praying for the same international student’s request, we could all
- [When Grief is Louder](https://tdc.navigators.org/2026/01/05/when-grief-is-louder/) - Osaze Murray | Train – Develop – Care Sometimes, in the middle of my favorite show, a commercial comes on louder than the show I tuned in on, and I find myself diving for the mute button on the remote. It’s off putting and intrusive. I didn’t ask for the commercial or the intense volume.
- [Eastering Our Marriage](https://tdc.navigators.org/2026/01/05/eastering-our-marriage/) - Judy Gomoll | SHAW and Encore Act one Our Happy Marriage Dies In 2001, death and betrayal arrived to our family, leaving a slew of bleeding wounds behind. After decades of love and kingdom adventures together, my husband George’s eyes deadened. We’ll call it a midlife crisis—his discovery of pornography, and then serial unfaithfulness. Each
- [The Cost of Community](https://tdc.navigators.org/2023/01/13/the-cost-of-community/) - During my staff team’s first get-together before the new school year, I felt impassioned by the Spirit to share about how crucial unity would be for us as a team that year. Little did I know what that unity would cost, and who would need to pay up. Spoiler: it was me. A few weeks
- [The Story of My Sister](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/07/31/the-story-of-my-sister/) - By the late 1990s, war and HIV/AIDS had ravaged my country, destroying entire families and villages. It left behind what was commonly referred to as “child-headed families,” families of little kids whose adults had been claimed by our tragedies. At barely 17 years, I was the head of my household. We struggled to stay in
- [The Gift of Co-Creating Connection](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/07/31/the-gift-of-co-creating-connection/) - Her text read: I am so happy to co-labor with you, Jordan. Reading Bonnie’s text drew me into reflecting on our early days of collaboration. We met at a coach training I gave. Chatting after class, we realized not only did we have coaching in common, but our faith in Christ made a strong connection.
- [It Started with a Question](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/07/31/it-started-with-a-question/) - Our true connection started with a question: “What is your greatest desire for the church today?” Alejandro and I had already been talking for thirty minutes, give or take. We’d introduced ourselves and explained what we do for a living. We’d found common ground in our commitment to sharing the gospel, to the Word of
- [Curiosity Leading into Green Pastures](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/07/31/curiosity-leading-into-green-pastures/) - Dave and I met while he was stationed as a Marine here at Camp Lejeune. For about the last 18 months, he and I have met for prayer and to fellowship deeply with the Lord together. Our times are always a mini-celebration of the goodness of God in our lives and in others. And since
- [Burning Bushes, Burning Questions](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/07/31/burning-bushes-burning-questions/) - “You all go explore the mall,” Mom said. “I’m going to stay here and people watch.” People watch? What’s that? Curious, I slid onto the bench beside my mom as my siblings headed off. “God created so much amazing diversity in this world,” she explained as we watched the world walk past. She pointed out
- [Ava and the Unicycling Clown](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/07/31/ava-and-the-unicycling-clown/) - Every evening around six o’clock that summer, a clown with bright orange hair and a fluorescent purple polka-dotted top hat rode past my house on a neon blue unicycle. A black lab in a red bowtie darted around below him. The first time, despite the fact that I usually find clowns creepy, he was a
- [The Embodied Experiment](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/20/the-embodied-experiment/) - Want to see how your physical posture affects your spiritual experience? Try this contemplative exercise to increase awareness of your body in worship. Pull up Psalm 46 in your favorite Bible-listening app (YouVersion, BibleGateway.com, YouTube, etc.), or ask a friend to try this with you. Sit comfortably—perhaps with your feet flat on the floor. Take
- [Glorious Eggs and Toast: How Embodied Spirituality Counteracts Trauma](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/02/glorious-eggs-and-toast-how-embodied-spirituality-counteracts-trauma/) - After working through a layer of trauma in my story, I distinctly remember being ridiculously excited about eggs in the morning. Somehow, the prospect of being able to wake up and make myself scrambled eggs filled me with a deep, irrational joy. It was as if God had enriched all the colors of life, quickening
- [Postures and Progression of the Gospel: Reflections through Art and Race](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/02/postures-and-progression-of-the-gospel/) - During my sabbatical in 2020, my friend Robin (Klapheke) Jones excitedly asked me if I had any ideas stirring for the painting I now had time, space, and motivation to do. Her question and enthusiasm spurred me out of my laziness, and several months later, out came a four-piece series on the progression of the
- [Embodied Spirituality: Giving Up Prayer for Lent](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/02/embodied-spirituality-giving-up-prayer-for-lent/) - Back in college, I often lay awake late into the night, mentally scrolling through my ever-increasing prayer list. Sometimes I would drift into sleep, only to jerk awake at two a.m., horrified to realize I had missed praying for the last few people.
- [Hospitality for the Life of the World](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/02/hospitality-for-the-life-of-the-world/) - God's hospitality floods the pages of Scripture, and our embodiment of His Word enables us to join Him in bringing healing to people's lives.
- [Does Fit = Faithful?](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/02/does-fit-equal-faithful/) - Revealing a false equation that results in disordered thinking, eating, and emotional attachments as we swap the balanced, kind care of our God-given bodies for the pursuit of cultural constructs of beauty and fitness.
- [The "Wow" of Spiritual Sexuality](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/02/the-wow-of-spiritual-sexuality/) - I never set out to write on sexuality, God knows. But so many women in their twenties wept in my counseling office (and I, with them) about sexual experiences they regretted, I had to pick up a pen. I never expected, though, that study and writing on sexuality would crack open a new window for
- [A Whole Lotta VUCA](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/02/a-whole-lotta-vuca/) - In the mid-80s, the Army War College developed a term to describe the global environment at the end of the Cold War. I use it in our household to describe ever increasing amounts of chaos, looking to my husband and stating with a knowing look, “That’s a whole lotta VUCA.” In the same way, COVID
- [Eight Hours of Sleep](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/02/eight-hours-of-sleep/) - A colonel I knew said that when he was deployed to Afghanistan as a battalion commander, he made sure to get the best sleep of anyone in his unit. That seemed odd—shouldn’t he have worked longer and harder, sacrificing his rest for the sake of his soldiers? But he had an explanation for that. His
- [Presence: Face to Face](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/02/presence-face-to-face/) - I survived two years as an EDGEr, an overseas mission trip to Norway, and most of my dating relationship with my now-wife, Heather—all without a cell phone. Shocking, right? What does it mean for us to be really present with each other?
- [Strength in Masculinity](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/02/masculine-strength/) - On Halloween, my kids excitedly put on their costumes to run house to house for their annual candy-induced sugar high. My four-year-old son wore a full knight costume, complete with helmet, shield, and shining silver sword. Inside this little boy lived a mighty warrior ready for battle. But what did this young knight do first? He poked his two-year-old sister with his plastic sword!
- [Hospitality Stories](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/02/hospitality-stories/) - iEDGE specialist Alyssa Spencer interviewed Adam and Renee Sperling, Carol and Steve Rugg, and Daniel Medina to get the scoop on classic Navigator hospitality.
- [Physical Dependence, Spiritual Freedom](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/02/physical-dependence-spiritual-freedom/) - I don’t remember breaking my neck, but I’ve heard the basic story. As I bicycled home from work twelve years ago, another cyclist cut in and sent me spinning off the trail to land headfirst on a rock. My spine was crushed rather than severed, so I can breathe without a ventilator and have some
- [Knowing and Slowing](https://tdc.navigators.org/2022/04/02/knowing-and-slowing/) - Finding margin and pace for our physical bodies allows us to know God more deeply
- [Translucently Beloved](https://tdc.navigators.org/2021/08/06/translucently-beloved/) - As Jesus came up from the waters of baptism, God’s words of love spilled over Him. “This is my beloved son, whom I love; my favor rests upon him (Matthew 3:17).” Can you imagine how keenly heartening this was for Jesus? Can you see the Spirit’s peace and joy resting in Jesus’ countenance? Is this your experience of your belovedness?
- [A Megadose of Rhythm](https://tdc.navigators.org/2021/08/06/a-megadose-of-rhythm/) - “The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.” Oswald Chambers Last week we got news we didn’t want, then a few days later came another challenge we’d prefer not to deal with. Oh, life—ours and yours, no doubt! A friend commented to us, “Chaos is the new normal.” We couldn’t agree more!
- [Equipped for the Work](https://tdc.navigators.org/2021/08/06/equipped-for-the-work/) - How have we been equipped for the work God called us to?
- [Your Own Grim Strength, or His Glory Strength?](https://tdc.navigators.org/2020/10/16/your-own-grim-strength-or-his-glory-strength/) - How do we let Jesus transform us so deeply that our outward life more truly reveals His reality to the watching world? How do we truly live from the inside out?
- [Mobile Alongsiding with Mutua Mahiaini](https://tdc.navigators.org/2020/10/16/mobile-alongsiding-with-mutua-mahiaini/) - What does mobile alongsiding look like in a practical context? As we continue to explore the Four Contributions through Staff Refresh and others, stories of Navigators everywhere come to the surface. This is what we do.
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- [Woundedness: The Laborer's Greatest Obstacle](https://tdc.navigators.org/2007/03/20/woundedness-upfront-archive-spring-2007/) - Jesus started His ministry by entering the synagogue and reading from Isaiah 61, in effect saying that He would focus His ministry on healing the brokenhearted and setting captives free. His main concern was with how people were doing on the inside, rather than on how well they performed. The word “brokenhearted” in Hebrew is

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