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Lori Ann Wood

If you’ve been detoured in life, you’re in the right place.


I walk alongside other believers to encourage, equip, and empower us all to ask our hard faith questions. Especially when we end up on a path we didn’t choose.

Your life detour is not an easy road. The way is full of difficult questions.

If you’ve been struggling with God along your unplanned route…

Let’s trek our detours together.
Let’s confront those nagging faith questions along the way.
Let’s rediscover our always-good God. He’s walking right next to us.

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If you’ve been detoured in life, you’re in the right place.

I walk alongside other believers to encourage, equip, and empower us all to ask our hard faith questions. Especially when we end up on a path we didn’t choose.

Your life detour is not an easy road. The way is full of difficult questions.

If you’ve been struggling with God along your unplanned route…

Let’s trek our detours together.
Let’s confront those nagging faith questions along the way.
Let’s rediscover our always-good God. He’s walking right next to us.

Read More

The book that can change your approach to faith:

After discovering a serious heart condition almost too late, I took a big risk and dove head-first into some long-held faith questions. Turns out, the questions are the three questions every life must confront. When we get detoured in life, these questions demand to be addressed. This book is a years-long effort to give voice to those questions in the form of 40 essays. In just a few minutes a day, you can acknowledge the question and leave with a newfound trust in a God who often doesn’t behave as we’d like…or expect.

Available now! ↦

A Gift

When we’re on a difficult path, God may seem distant. Sometimes, I just quit talking to Him. If that’s you, my free guide may help: 5 Prayers & Promises When You Can’t Talk to God.

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My Story

In late 2015, my story broke into two pieces: pre-diagnosis and post-diagnosis. Despite otherwise pristine health and a solid faith, I almost died from heart failure from an unknown cause. Against all medical odds, I survived. But my condition is incurable.

As heart failure goes, my health has experienced some dramatic ups and downs. And as the Christian journey goes, so has my faith.

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The Seasons Series

Guest essays about how God has been present, and oh so faithful, in every season of life.

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    Faith is foremost believing He can, and the bigger, gnarlier part of faith is being good with His decision not to. Hoping for the yes, but accepting the no. Believing His decision is better than my own vision. That’s the mature part—the rougher part—of faith.

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  • Are You Wondering, “Should I Stay or Should I Go?”

    Are You Wondering, “Should I Stay or Should I Go?”

    When we consider our staying and going decisions, we should focus more on abiding in God than in the physical place.

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