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Continue reading →: If Anyone Asks
If Anyone Asks My life is a game of hide and seek. At fifty years old, I am on a constant quest to find my glasses, my keys, my purse, my phone, my book, my pen, my earphones, my jacket, my tickets, my bag – everything seems lost. I try…
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Continue reading →: Beautiful Chaos
First published 8/16/15 on the blog Growing In Grace My mind spins in a hundred directions. Nothing new for me. Nothing new for most moms! The extraordinary gift of the female brain is its ability to intake and process numerous pieces of information simultaneously. It’s also a beautiful curse. Today…
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Continue reading →: Toilet Paper
We all use it. We use lots of it. According to http://encyclopedia.toiletpaperworld.com, the average American spends 3 years of his life in the toilet room and uses 57 squares of toilet paper per day – or 20,805 sheets a year. It’s a $6 billion annual industry (cnn.com) and has been…
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Continue reading →: That Date
There it is. On the Calendar. THAT day. You know the one. It’s a date you dread every year. No need to make a reminder, circle on your calendar or set an alarm – the date is permanently seared in your memory. A date when someone died. When the love…
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Continue reading →: WEARY
“Do not grow weary in doing good, for you will reap at the proper time if you don’t give up. So, as you have opportunity, work for the good of all, especially those who belong to Christ.” Galatians 6:9-10 Tired? Weary? Frustrated? Check your commitment. Overcommitted? Under-committed? What are…
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Continue reading →: Called
originally written to the Men’s Soccer Coaching Staff to Trinity International University Verses: Exodus 3: 10-12 (Miss Kim Paraphrase) “I am sending you so that you may lead My people… I will certainly be with you! … This will be the sign to you that I…
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Continue reading →: Two Weeks
In two weeks, she boards a plane for the UK. We have condensed three months of her life into three bags for the possibility of travel to three countries. She is pursuing her God-given dream to tell stories through film. To document what God has done in the life of…
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Continue reading → : 21
At 2:07pm today, our daughter turns 21. I held her, tiny and blue, in awe of her dark red hair, with as much amazement that day as I watch her with today. I love her dry humor. The way she scrunches her nose like her father when she laughs. …
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Continue reading →: GRIEF
It’s okay to not be okay. It’s okay to be angry. To be sad. To be disappointed. These emotions are all part of the complex makeup that is the…
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Continue reading →: Complex
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. Psalm 139:14 (NLT) When I first started this blog, choosing a name was one of the most difficult tasks – and I think that has kept me from writing much. I haven’t been…
