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The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz

Welcome to a becoming-space. A place for imperfectly ready people to say yes to more Jesus and actual friendships with their neighbors. A place for introverts and workaholics and people-pleasers and self-doubters. Welcome, welcome, if that"s you! I get that pull you feel to go deeper. Find purpose, meaningful conversations, community. I also get how you think you"re not ready. Want to know a secret?! None of us are, least of all me! Also true is that we BECOME ready after, not before, we say

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206 - How to Find Yourself Outside What You Can...

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/06/17

The insecurity you’d do about anything to keep hidden, the way you’re always on a 10 but still feel behind, your fear of rejection–leave it with Him. You don’t have to carry it anymore. Links mentioned: To learn more about Enneagram 3s–including what we appreciate most about you, how you can use your strengths to mirror God’s grace to your neighbors, and (for the rest of us) how we can best missionally love the Enneagram 1s we know–grab the Enneagram Neighboring Lists. Each list is available both

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205 - How to Detach Self-Worth From Your Helpfulness...

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/06/10

There you are. You’re quick to see the needs in front of you, but sometimes it feels like no one sees you. You are more than the warm, smiling face greeting us at the door. More than the volunteer we count on for an enthusiastic “yes.” More than the way you welcome both friend and stranger with the hugs we all love. Sometimes your worth gets all tangled up in what you can do to serve others. Your helpfulness is a beautiful reflection of Jesus inside you—true. But let’s detach self-worth from all

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204 - How to Stop Nitpicking and Rest in Acceptance...

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/06/03

To you, exhausted from trying so hard to be perfect, weighed down by feeling worthless, worrying about what others think of you–let’s take a big exhale together. It’s time for a trade: The intrusive anxiety, the dreaded insufficiency, and the battle in your mind–for acceptance that doesn’t hinge on your perfection. Links mentioned: To learn more about Enneagram 1s–including what we appreciate most about you, how you can use your strengths to mirror God’s grace to your neighbors, and (for the rest

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203 - Surprise! You’re the One God Wants Next to Him

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/05/27

Some days you get in a slump and maybe you don’t truly believe there’s a place for you. You dismiss somewhere way down inside that God would actually want you next to Him. That He seeks your presence. Then you read John 14:2 and it hits hard: you are in the front of God’s mind. You’re not a last thought. Not unfilled potential. Not looked over in the slew of everyone else. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE

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202 - How to Get Your Voice Back When You Lose It

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/05/20

Underneath my slouched posture and avoidance of eye contact was the belief that my voice didn’t matter. I left speaking up to those whose words were more effortless, less awkward. I thought that meant they mattered more. Perhaps you can relate. You dismiss the value of your voice because someone else can articulate it better, say it with more confidence, or couch it in more credibility. You second-guess, self-critique, self-sabotage. Because, like me, you struggle to believe, way down deep, that

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07:56

201 - The Best Thing to Do While You’re Waiting

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/05/13

We want there to be good reason for the delay. Want to know the waiting will one day make sense. Want assurance that God’s best will be worth all the angst and surrender. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE.

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200 - 5 Ways to Overcome Distraction for the...

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/05/06

I think of how less light around me works almost like blinders on a horse. Blinders are the piece on a horse’s harness that blocks their vision–not entirely, but so they see only what’s straight ahead. It’s a built-in focus mechanism. One I often resist but deeply need. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE. 3. Get the playlist of my favorite worship songs HERE

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199 - 5 Secrets for Seeing the People You Often Miss

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/04/29

I was a keep-to-myself neighbor for most of my life. A scarcely-seen neighbor. A door-locked-unless-I-expected-guests neighbor. But I was also a lonely neighbor. I thought it was normal to drive across town every time you wanted to meet up with a friend. To close the garage door as soon as you pull inside and gaze at the ground when you walk to the mailbox. To nod a cordial hello if you see a neighbor but not step inside their house, not hoist their kid onto your knee as they stir something on the

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198 - How to Become Excited About Reading Your Bible

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/04/22

And I want to know his secret. What compels the psalmist to pursue the teachings of God regardless of the hour? To chase after God’s will with urgency and love God Himself wholeheartedly? It’s not perfection, because the unnamed author of this Psalm openly admits failure to fully follow God’s decrees. “Oh, that every part of my life would remain in line with what You require!” he exclaims (v. 5). I take another sip from the not-round rim of my mug, grateful a deep love of God’s Word doesn’t hinge

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197 - For the People Watchers, EavesDroppers, and...

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/04/15

Just imagine what might happen if the words we say breathed life, ignited hearts, and amplified hope when they were overheard! If what came out of our mouths was laced in humility and grounded in our God-identity. If our words repaired breaches and lent hope and lit a candle for someone else. Someone listening over our shoulder, curious how to trust God when life doesn’t make sense. Someone observing at a distance how we become the hands and feet of the Lord we say we love. Someone with doubts and

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196 - The Truth About Vulnerability: The Grace-Lined...

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/04/08

We get both–the imposter syndrome and the subtly-inflating self-impression. We shame and doubt ourselves, wondering who we are to think God can use us for His grand purpose. And we’re also guilty of esteeming ourselves too highly, as if our value has anything to do with us and not the One who breathed undeserved worth into our lungs just because He loves us so. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the

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195 - How To Cultivate a Receptive, Growth-Friendly...

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/04/01

What if we let go of the “metrics-based growth” Jennifer Dukes Lee cautions will “[hurry] our hearts,” and lean instead into the two heart cultivators Jesus offers? Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE. 3. Jennifer Dukes Lee's books. 4. Get a FREE Names of God Phone Wallpaper HERE.

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194 - How To Slow the Rush and Really Rest

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/03/25

After a rich, tear-wet journey through the Old Testament searching for who God is on every page, resting in His endless love felt like a bear hug. Again and again and again the truth that God’s love never runs out and is always meant for us brought strength to my soul, filling me for another day of pouring out. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE. 3. Daughters

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193 - What Happens When You’re Drenched in God’s...

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/03/18

It hits like the curled top of an ocean wave: every name I’ve penned in Bible margins, in answer to Ann Voskamp’s question in Sacred Prayer–”Who do I say that God is today? (Mark 8:29)”–is who God is in the right-now. Not a single descriptor is merely a past-tense attribute of God’s nature. Each name spans as far back and reaches as far beyond as endless eternity. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read

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192 - How to Know What God Actually Wants from Us

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/03/11

We don’t have to be more or less of anything. Our presence alone blesses Him. I’m sitting with that as I ponder how we best serve God and minister to the people in front of us on His behalf. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE. 3. I’m taking Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge, searching for names of God as I read like it’s some sort of treasure hunt

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191 - Where To Find The Most Beautiful Picture Of...

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/03/04

What strikes me about this picture of open hands is that for hands to be unfolded daily, they must be balled-up daily too. I can relate to that. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE. 3. Get a FREE Names of God Phone Wallpaper HERE.

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190 - The Best Remedy I’ve Found For My Tendency To...

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/02/25

It begins to connect as I pause at the word ‘name’ at the end of Psalm 91: because we know God by name–by His many names–we know TO call on Him, HOW to call on Him, and WHAT to call Him. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE. 3. I’m taking Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge, searching for names of God as I read like it’s some sort of treasure hunt

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189 - This Is What Changes When We Know God by Name

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/02/18

It begins to connect as I pause at the word ‘name’ at the end of Psalm 91: because we know God by name–by His many names–we know TO call on Him, HOW to call on Him, and WHAT to call Him. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE. 3. I’m taking Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge, searching for names of God as I read like it’s some sort of treasure hunt

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188 - Three Unique Ways To Repeat What You Need To...

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/02/11

This morning, wide awake way too early, I pondered how there’s nothing else I’d rather have running through my head when I can’t sleep than the weighty glory of God Himself. Unless I proactively tell my thoughts where to dwell, they wander willful and easily distracted. I lean into lies that incite fear or unworth rather than lean on the One who knows every tender hope and unspoken prayer. Maybe that’s you too. And you’re ready to change the string of what-if’s and self-belittling on repeat inside

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187 - How to Find Hope for Your Anxious Heart

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz ·

2025/02/04

These are the days of appointments and answers I don’t like. Of whispering hope in a waiting room to one anxious heart. Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up here. 2. Read the written version of this episode HERE. 3. I’m taking Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge, searching for names of God as I read like it’s some sort of treasure hunt. Never though to look for God in this way until I began journaling

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