Sarah Bessey's Field Notes

Sarah Bessey's Field Notes

Good words for hard times

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Sarah Bessey
Jan 21, 2025
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Hi friends,

When things feel uncertain or scary, true and good words have often functioned like a lighthouse, shining in the darkness to help me find steady ground.

a lighthouse on a rocky coast
Photo by Ivan Zhuldybin on Unsplash

Or perhaps those words have served simply to remind me that home - whatever that means in the moment - is even a possible hope. I have set these things ahe…

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