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Continue reading →: Home
“Home is where the heart is.” Pliny the Elder “There’s no place like home.” Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Robert Frost The past 8 weeks have been beyond busy. Let’s back up –…
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Continue reading →: Not My Plan
A month – or more – ago, I wrote about my plan to write more. To share what Jesus is teaching me. To even write out the devotionals I give as Chaplain. It has not gone according to my plan. It’s not that I can’t think of things to write…
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Continue reading →: Hiatus
Sometimes we need to stop. Just stop. Rest. Refocus. Realign. I’d like to tell you that’s what I’ve been doing – an intentional rest. For the past 5 years, I haven’t written much. For weeks and months, I’ve been totally silent. Barely a yearly check-in. Five years ago, I learned…
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Continue reading →: Not My Plans
Tomorrow is not what I had planned for my week. Hip surgery – yes, I am very young for this but when you are a klutz and have spent a lifetime tripping and falling, I guess it adds up to torn ligaments. That and a weird little bone malformation I…
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Continue reading →: TILTED
Everything seems slightly off-centered. Askew. Catty-wampus. Tilted just enough to be disorienting. The world looks familiar. Smells familiar. Sounds familiar. But the ground is tilted so that we are unsure of our footing and dizzy and nauseated and we are grasping for the walls trying to stabilize ourselves. The school…
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Continue reading →: Sitting with Bees
Bees are not my favorite insect. I see their beauty – fat little, airborne, gravity-defying pollinators who make our world more beautiful and bountiful with flowers and food. Yet, seeing their usefulness and recognizing their magnificence does not mean I like them. Actually, I have a healthy fear of them.…
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Continue reading →: We Are Not “In This Together”
Catchy slogans, pithy sayings, and slick ads. Our daily life is drowning in marketing campaigns. They draw us in. They resonate with us because they appeal to what we believe, or what we want to believe, is true. Church-goers are no different. We love a good sermon series with three-point…
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Continue reading →: Things We Must Remember
When the words “unprecedented times” appear on my screen or find their way to my ears, my head automatically drops, my eyes involuntarily roll, and I must consciously lock my jaw tight against sarcasm and angry words that bubble to the tip of my tongue. The Influenza epidemic of 1200…
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Continue reading →: Too Many Words
It would be easy for the untrained observer to assume that my lack of writing is due to a dry-streak. A lack of words for few topics that rarely invade my mind. That would be far from the truth. Words flood my mind. Sometimes at apace that drives me to…
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Continue reading →: Raising Missionaries
It was not our intention to raise Missionaries. In truth, we did not set intentional parenting goals. We were just happy to have babies! Instead, we had a vague framework of ideals within which we parented. They were not lofty ambitious but they have proved to be a solid…
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I’m Kim!
Thank you! You have gifted me your most prized possession – time. I hope you enjoy the read. Some laughs, some smiles, some tears and even a few, “mmm-hmmms” too!
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