on Haven Hill
By Lindsay van Zyl
on Haven HillSep 06, 2019
To My Fellow Enneagram Sixes (and anyone else who thinks they are destined to live a life marked by fear)
I’m an Enneagram Type Six, which means I’m trustworthy, hard working, and resilient.
But the only trait that seems to stick in anyone’s mind about us Sixes is our tendency to fear and be anxious.
I love being a Six. I didn’t always love it. But then I had a revelation regarding fear that unearthed the gold of who I really am.
If you’re a Six…or, if the Enneagram means absolutely nothing to you, but you’ve struggled with crippling fear (anxiety, panic, worry), the letter is for you.
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The New Dark (Part 2)
Jesus didn’t come to cut a deal with darkness, He came to completely defeat it. And He did.
Darkness is just a distraction, never your destiny.
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The New Dark (Part 1)
Some of us outgrew our fear of the dark long ago, but as adults there is a new dark we wish to avoid — our inner world in uncertain times.
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I'm Feeling 32
I’m not afraid of growing old.
Maybe that’s a weird way to start a birthday post, especially when I’m only 32.
Somewhere along the way, between turning 2 and 32, birthdays tend to stop being delighted in and start being dreaded.
It just doesn’t make sense to me to try to fight off feeling old anymore.
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Homemaking
Your life is a gift to be enjoyed, not a penalty to endure.
Home doesn’t have to be a cage, and marriage doesn’t have to be a ball and chain. It can be your favorite place.
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Seasonal Reality
Let’s not dread, let’s dream.
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What's Your Name?
When you're called a name, you're handed an invitation that says, “Is this what you’re going to answer to?"
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The Middle
So much of life is lived in the middle. Just when you feel like you've arrived at some exciting life stage, you’re actually right back in the middle of it. I'm learning to savor the season I find myself in. I will no longer squander the treasure of the present. It’s too precious.
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Unapologetically Me
I used to pray a very dumb prayer for years. One day when I prayed this prayer for what must have been the 1000th time, God answered me...
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You Can Expect to Flourish
Have you ever cried over spilled coffee? I have. I’ve cried, yelled, and even thrown my hands up towards the heavens and asked, “Why me?”
When life is hard, everything seems hard.
In the midst of heartbreak, the spilled coffee is often just the tipping point. It’s these kind of small hiccups and bumps in the road we use as tangible evidence to prove everything is falling apart.
But, friend, the spilled coffee is not the word of the Lord over your life. You were made to flourish in every season—even the hard seasons.
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The Things We Keep
You get to choose your headline. You’ll have a lot of opportunity to choose something other than goodness, but you decide the things you’ll keep. What will you dwell on? What will you highlight? What will you turn over to the next generation to carry on?
What will you choose to let hang over your head like a banner? A dark cloud of pain or a glory cloud of promise?
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Built to Last
It's demo day on Haven Hill! The process of deconstructing this house on a hill has got me thinking about how I approach changes within my own life. Change can be really scary because it sometimes looks and feels a lot like suffering. It can be painful, daunting, and leave us wondering if we’re going to last.
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Permission to Dream
I’ve been waiting around for permission to do the things I really want to do.
Why don’t I do them?
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A Good Year with a Good God
I’ve heard it said that there is nothing magical about January 1, and I agree that the date itself holds no real power to determine our success or failure in starting a new year strong. However, I’ve always held January 1 in high regard because —whether you choose to acknowledge it or not by setting specific resolutions or making a list of goals — the day seems to spark a universal decision in almost all of us. January 1 invites us to believe that it doesn’t have to be like it’s always been, and for whatever reason, I’ve found that on this day, over any other day of the year, many of us are more open to actually accepting that invitation by starting to walk in the direction of change.
So on January 1, 2018 I decided to believe that my year would be marked by God’s goodness.
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