<?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[btahallelujah]]></title><description><![CDATA[btahallelujah]]></description><link>https://anniekberndt.wixsite.com/btahallelujah/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:54:59 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Reward of Telling ALL Your Secrets, &#38; The Vulnerability Hangover]]></title><description><![CDATA[I haven’t blogged in weeks. And that’s a really bad idea when you suddenly have a bunch of new readers who just joined cause you spoke...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2016/02/10/the-reward-of-telling-all-your-secrets-the-vulnerability-hangover</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce722fffe0017f5ca9d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:43:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_bb0142483051429f83efae2dfa8c6d54~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_256,h_256,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kryptonite, Tote-Bag People, and What God Really Wants]]></title><description><![CDATA[Originally, I was planning on skipping blogging this month all together. Reason being that my brain was already devoted to worrying about...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2016-1-13-kryptonite-tote-bag-people-and-what-god-really-wants</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce7d3dfbc002deaff2d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:27:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_b9a3b292243345489fe944fc7840ebe6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_900,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fixing a Broken Christmas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christmas is here again. For most of my adult life, I’ve always held my breath once December hits, just hoping I can get it all done...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/12/23/fixing-a-broken-christmas</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce7c6eba000189f16a6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:17:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_0c07fc40249040fea55be910c3e0caf1.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Unfair Thing, The Swear-Prayer, And When Mr. Big Evangelist Guy Shamed Me on TV.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I want to just pretend it’s been busy and I haven’t blogged because there hasn’t been time - cause it's kind of true. But what’s mostly...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/11/11/the-unfair-thing-the-swearprayer-and-when-mr-big-evangelist-guy-shamed-me-on-tv</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce73c9649002d90be46</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 05:49:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_9c5bf3f7d6c54c57b7c2570b4864d6ee.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_725,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Frozen Made Me Fall in Love With Jesus, and Snowmen.]]></title><description><![CDATA[So I’ve officially decided that writing a BOOK about *difficult life* would be so much easier than writing a BLOG about it. Why? Because...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/10/09/how-frozen-made-me-fall-in-love-with-jesus-and-snowmen</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce78bc20c001750adba</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2015 08:28:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_133613df88754b48906a14902df20db5.jpg/v1/fit/w_769,h_347,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorry Not Sorry For That Photo in Your Feed: God Makes You Beautiful Enough.]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I’m super passionate about something, I don’t know how to turn it off. Growing up, my personality was described as “feeling things...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/09/25/sorry-not-sorry-for-that-photo-in-your-feed-god-makes-me-beautiful-enough</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce71e62d100178fe4dd</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:01:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_d79b7c85f1cd4f58a2dd53e170b7e01a.jpg/v1/fit/w_430,h_287,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Two Hour Self-Improvement Assignment (A Post for Moms)]]></title><description><![CDATA[I haven’t blogged in almost four weeks, and it drove me crazy every, single, week. You see, this is my outlet, my “self-care”, and my...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/09/18/my-two-hour-marriageimproving-assignment-a-post-for-moms</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce70e83290018f5b4b6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:25:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_204c141630c94f128866d12b4465f7a2.jpg/v1/fit/w_393,h_294,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God Parted the Sea for Me. And Adoption, Part 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[(Note: if you haven’t read my last post, this is going to feel like a half of something) So, I skipped blogging last week for two...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/08/27/when-god-parted-the-sea-for-me-and-adoption-part-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce71b84d4002d909863</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2015 06:23:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_8d14893de5b04a23b9074663915abfde.jpg/v1/fit/w_554,h_401,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Runner-Up Version of Me. And Adoption, Part 1]]></title><description><![CDATA[So I’m fifteen posts in, and my amateur blogging self has discovered a pattern: almost every time I post, the topic I’m trying to muck...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/08/14/the-runnerup-version-of-me-and-adoption-part-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce732e0da0017c71488</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 03:32:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_495df790ad48424fbc22748a19ccffc4.jpg/v1/fit/w_423,h_317,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gigabytes of Heartbeats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Life is complicated right now. Complicated enough where I don’t even know where to go next; I don't know how to write here. I got to the...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/07/30/gigabytes-of-heartbeats</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce7563b9a001767a8d1</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:17:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_0eb1288465284c2f814571c6e64be945.jpg/v1/fit/w_438,h_438,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Bad Week. But God Has Fireflies, So There's That.]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I started blogging, my plan was just the simple process of paging through my journals and writing posts created from them...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/07/16/a-bad-week-but-god-has-fireflies-so-theres-that</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce77fe5570017b21ad7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 07:21:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_91eb418ba5224f729cb0fa273e146aba.jpg/v1/fit/w_800,h_329,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tattoos, Trust, and Testimonies]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I was about ten years old, I remember my church having a “testimony” night. They’d had a bunch before, it wasn’t a new thing. 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(*Insert questioning tone* ) My...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/06/24/just-a-34yearold-having-a-mariokart-tantrum</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce7ff8cb800175901ac</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 08:35:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_2c6d87fc077449deb4918aa1dd8cc609.jpg/v1/fit/w_485,h_319,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smashing Cassette Tapes With God]]></title><description><![CDATA[Face stained with tears, body language defeated and weak, she leans her back up against a wall and slowly descends to a sitting position....]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/06/12/smashing-cassette-tapes-with-god</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce7c6eba000189f16a7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:45:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_5d9d2895ef084a55a48c144045affca4.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 1,284 Notes God's Written On You]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you only knew how many times I had to rewrite these posts. My plan this week was to tell you the circumstances which led to how, on...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/06/02/the-1284-notes-gods-written-on-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce7eb70c6002e41c5b6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2015 05:58:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_332c1e80cc6f4a54ae938be35aa2add1.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mom-Thing God Invented]]></title><description><![CDATA[I used my happy-crying emoji entirely too much this week in messages and texts. Packing so much real life into such a small amount of...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/05/08/the-momthing-god-invented</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce7a4007a001722dec2</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2015 16:40:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_0e1082b44aa64a83a2a6bb7d6e5f2705.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Megan God Sent]]></title><description><![CDATA[As horrible as this may sound, I have to be honest: I let Google be my unintentional god many, many, times. (I'm working on this always,...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/04/27/the-megan-god-sent</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce7a4007a001722dec1</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2015 06:58:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_541580781e0d4b9d949feb707ad3e075.jpg/v1/fit/w_527,h_396,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weak Enough]]></title><description><![CDATA[(You came back after reading my first ugly! Ha! For real though, if I have one person come back that isn't Best Friend I can do the next...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/04/23/weak-enough</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce7970bd300174577c8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2015 05:03:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_f76d618aec0e473183da2efb6fbee9f7.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[This "Better Than A Hallelujah" thing..]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first time this song resonated with me, I was sitting in bed, alone, at 3am taking shots of vodka out of my 1 year-old's bathtime...]]></description><link>https://www.betterthanahallelujah.com/single-post/2015/04/16/this-better-than-a-hallelujah-thing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8f5ce7ec66fd001795c9f4</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:15:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca661_e3d439bc4bf24ad3abbf5fe1e2d94037.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>