Dawn Rutan

Telling God’s Story

Written by Dawn Rutan This is a slightly different post from usual. I mentioned in my last post that I’d picked up four random books from the library, never expecting them to share a theme. Here are three quotes that struck me as I read: Mourning Into Dancing, by Walter Wangerin – “Talitha [his daughter], […]

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He Knows My Name

Written by Dawn Rutan Last week I went to the library and picked up a few Christian books that at first glance seemed to be unrelated. But as I’ve gotten into them I’ve found several similarities. Two of them, Mourning into Dancing, by Walter Wangerin, and To Be Told, by Dan Allender, talk particularly about

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Unresigned

Written by Dawn Rutan The short book Be Still, by Cherie Hill, uses the terminology of “resignation” in talking about accepting God’s will. “The more resigned we are to God’s care, the less power our circumstances have over us. When we’re resigned to God’s care, we won’t be frightened by undesirable news, and we won’t

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Not Enough

Written by Dawn Rutan This blog is sort of a meal in progress—I’ve been chewing on these thoughts for awhile now and I’m just beginning to digest and make sense of them. The question now is whether I can verbalize in a few paragraphs the thought processes of a few years. Thomas Chalmers, often quoted

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