<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[This Good Grace]]></title><description><![CDATA[This Good Grace]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/blog-this-good-grace</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:12:16 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/es/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Spiritual Discipline of Disappointing People]]></title><description><![CDATA[I used to believe holiness meant always saying yes. Yes, I can help. Yes, that’s fine. Yes, I don’t mind at all. I practiced self-erasure so well that people called it Christlike. (Because who am I if I'm not useful?) People applauded my disappearing act, as if vanishing was a virtue. No one ever told me that sometimes the most obedient thing a person of faith can do is simply say no. But here’s what I’ve learned the hard way:  When “love” looks like exhausting myself to earn approval, it’s...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/the-spiritual-discipline-of-disappointing-people</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69387fe1122b31d338b4d4bd</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:25:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_836704ae9af3489db6b12b4d9aa25aad~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning To Sit With What Is. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over the last year and a half, my Pastor--Boss has made a point of telling me to sit with my emotions . Conversations usually go like this: I walk into his office. I plop down. I start complaining about a situation and how it makes me feel.I rehearse all the reasons I’m justified in being upset. And then, inevitably, he says, “Sit with it.” No fixing. No reframing. No immediate prayer to tie it up with a bow. Just… sit with it. Sitting with it means allowing yourself to feel discomfort,...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/learning-to-sit-with-what-is</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6941ac9945f7c8714653886e</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:00:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_40c8720e70544a809d4d656958571cda~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fiyero Complex: On Charm, Chaos, and Hiding What Hurts.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hey y’all! This post is a bit of a departure from my usual fare, but with Wicked: For Good releasing this month, I’ve found myself reflecting—and feeling a lot of feelings. Even if musicals aren’t your thing, I hope this reflection finds some resonance in you. The first time I saw Wicked, I was supposed to care about the witches. Everyone does. You choose a side: green or pink, rebellion or perfection. But I found my eyes drifting to the boy who never stopped moving, the one with a grin sharp...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/the-fiyero-complex-on-charm-chaos-and-hiding-what-hurts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690d60f81d01e1b5e067e34e</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 03:49:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cbf3a7_b86155e781d54dd68757147a0520c996~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_697,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confessions of a Chronic People Pleaser.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Listen to me:  I did not want to write this post. It feels too close to the bone, too real, too vulnerable to confess (and then publish on the Internet for presumably the rest of time). This is something I know to be a flaw of mine. And not like a cute “ha ha, I bite my nails and hit curbs, I’m so quirky”  kind of flaw. I mean something I genuinely wrestle with. And while I generally consider myself an open book, there are still things I don’t like admitting or digging into because I fear the...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/confessions-of-a-chronic-people-pleaser</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b148c94d4e15d00cdebe7c</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:54:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6c8ad467b4c94fbdb9c74f1f0d0b6ca8.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Does Jesus Actually Love?]]></title><description><![CDATA["But God loves things by becoming them. God loves things by uniting with them, not by excluding them." -Fr. Richard Rohr, The Universal...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/who-does-jesus-actually-love</link><guid isPermaLink="false">654ac74b90e42d81fe29e2e3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:19:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_672ff32f84fa4dc19d9074d87e6f2e0c~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memento Mori &#38; Other True Things ]]></title><description><![CDATA[By the sweat of your brow, you will have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/memento-mori-other-true-things</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67c86a9b844d86c93bed46f1</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:25:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_df0ea9a854e045a28a6270229b9f3b1c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding Peace: How I Quieted the Noise to Hear God's Voice in the Chaos]]></title><description><![CDATA[In today's fast-paced (often chaotic) world, we are bombarded by endless notifications, news cycles, and busy schedules. It usually feels...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/finding-peace-how-i-quieted-the-noise-to-hear-god-s-voice-in-the-chaos</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67180737be9f36249f76195f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:38:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/08507f1daac04d0d9a787556c9c88951.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I'm a United Methodist.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Listen. I get it. If you're in the Methodist world, you're sick of hearing and having conversations like this. If you're not in the...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/why-i-m-a-united-methodist</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66917272f8f9a8f70953eaa7</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:35:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_072f18fac9ef4dcdaa67a8fe43eeee0a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Become what you believe.]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Jesus left the house, he was followed by two blind men crying out, “Mercy, Son of David! Mercy on us!” When Jesus got home, the blind...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/become-what-you-believe</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65ea11edc7636fbd22593c2d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:38:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0d13a469583544cdac2e368cc5f44c6f.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[We’ve got to learn to listen.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, the world was perfect. And then it wasn’t. There were some issues with forbidden fruit, a crafty serpent, disobedient...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/we-ve-got-to-learn-to-listen</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b1c26df4bcc89438da4e9e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 03:04:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/71a6bdc492e047c0a1516afde8cb20a6.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Storms and Pigs and Hope]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are two relatively famous passages in the New Testament, and both of them happen back-to-back in the book of Matthew. The first is...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/storms-and-pigs-and-hope</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6568d3377083dbaa486ea251</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:09:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_5f593570704d5756596b6b~mv2_d_3633_2332_s_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Church Hurts]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is okay to press pause. When the walls suddenly feel to be closing in, the stares or whispers seem to be all too familiar, or the...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/when-church-hurts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6543d98f0af242bc9525aaaa</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:33:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_65f47ecc30724adfb922069bdd9915f1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a race to lose. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don't tell anyone, but I think I'm secretly competitive. 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Being reminded that others didn't think you were good enough, either....]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/when-you-do-your-best-and-it-s-still-not-enough</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6503aebe8cc8729590d9cc5a</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 02:15:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_aa22bcf8dfc44bc98141671931b81a03~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it Feels Like God Isn't Speaking]]></title><description><![CDATA[One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, he priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/when-it-feels-like-god-isn-t-speaking</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64ee1727ee222c90cde56e09</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 16:05:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_6c4ab04c60734c15861acaec2340a74c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I'm Not Joining the Global Methodist Church.]]></title><description><![CDATA[What a time to be alive.  What a time to be a United Methodist. 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A whole section of...]]></description><link>https://www.thisgoodgrace.com/post/the-lost-passage-of-the-bible</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6342e7c73e0d8f89720beda9</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 14:16:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_3068745153713054564230~mv2_d_3409_4540_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>meashley1124</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conviction.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conviction is a funny thing. 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