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Have you ever been so sure you heard from God — only to realize you may have been listening to yourself all along?

I'll be honest — this episode was born on my living room floor, surrounded by notes from The Well Conference for Creatives. I was reviewing what I'd learned in a session on writing and speaking through story, and one story from my own life kept rising to the top. So today, you are officially my guinea pigs, and I am so glad you showed up.

It's the story of a bike ride.

My kids Jason and Amber were little, and I was a fairly new single mom. We had just settled into our first apartment together, and I had saved up enough to get them both bicycles — which, trust me, was a big deal. Jason had just mastered riding without training wheels and could not wait to take our fir ...