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Beauty in the Ordinary
My youngest son has a new girlfriend. She’s super cool and has a real heart for people. She’s traveled multiple times to third world countries, helped develop a video to promote a ministry to the poor...
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Grateful
After the intensity of yesterday’s post I long for the simple again. Just the everyday thoughts and remembering the everyday stuff that makes life beautiful. Like the grown kids popping into visit and...
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Freedom to Move Forward
It’s like breathing deeper. Or flying. Or laughing for a long time. This new sense of freedom. Crazy how the layer must peel away. And in each new layer of freedom how the heart soars. How I think I’ve...
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Big Celebrations and Simple Pleasures
We wore our Hawaiian attire just ’cause we could. For a joke in a way. A celebration of the memories of 25 years of marriage. We matched. We rejoiced in the fact our clothes from that trip 16 years ago...
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Summer Joys
Sometimes a picture says it all. No words needed. Grateful for the gifts of summer. Enjoy the season! Until Next Time,
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Refreshment
The breeze brushes my face, wispy fingers cooling my questions. It’s funny what conquers the ragged places. You think it will take something big–like getting the answers you want–but sometimes it’s the...
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Lessons from Sam and LOTR: “There’s some good in this world.”
The things we do for love. Some of them aren’t so hard. My sweet Sam, still recovering from surgery and growing increasingly tired of being tied to crutches, requested a Lord of the Rings Marathon....
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Immortalizing a Moment
Ever had an experience you knew must be immortalized? Like the hearing the violinist who played amidst the destruction of a bomb. Or glimpsing a flower stretching to the sunlight in a garbage dump....
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I Am the Artist
A friend of mine wrote this and posted it to Facebook. Such a valuable concept that I’ve been thinking about it over and over. Too often I’ve given the very design of my life over to others. To their...
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Tromping on All or Nothing (Again)
Peace in the midst of chaos. Balance. You’d think I’d be better at it. I’ve had ample opportunity to learn. I think (hope) I’ve made progress in cultivating joy in times of emotional struggle and...
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Clear It Out!
Sometimes you just gotta let it go. If you’ve been reading lately you know there are a lot of cool changes at my house. One of the latest is a new sectional in our remodeled family room. I am not into...
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Does God Shop?
If you don’t believe God likes to shop, I’m here to challenge your perceptions. Or maybe He just likes me to shop. See last Wednesday was my birthday. I finish a tall cup of nice, hot tea and good...
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Expressing All that Excitement!
“Guess what? Guess what? Guess what?” My boys responded with the teenage eye roll. Maybe I tend toward the melodramatic, but hey, a girl’s gotta express all that excitement. This morning it was over...
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A Great Light Has Come
God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Jesus . . . said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never...
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Barnacles or Full Steam Ahead?
Image taken from Wiki Barnacles. A crazy image for God to bring to mind. But poignant. Since He popped into my head, let’s go with it. Life is like a sailing ship. We have somewhere to go. We have a...
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Where Am I Putting All that Stuff?
Maybe it was just another one of those expressions Christian use that was supposed to make me feel better. But it didn’t. And that made me feel worse because it sounded so spiritual? And I wanted to be...
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Romantic Movie Quotes
Special thanks to Robin Jones Gunn, a wonderful author whose books have often encouraged me. I loved her Valentine’s blog so much that I asked for permission to share it. Consider it our Valentine’s...
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Sweeping Girls off their Feet
This is too fun! Last year my oldest son and his buddy decided to sweep girls off their feet for Valentine’s Day. See for yourself how the women at their school received their good-natured attentions....
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The Meeting Place
It doesn’t matter. Honest. God can meet you anywhere. Under a tree. In the shower. At the movies. It also doesn’t matter the style of worship. It was almost surreal that twenty-four hours of my life....
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Finding Joy in the Pouring Rain
For many years I prayed for joy. What seemed to happen in response to those prayers was hardship upon hardship. But looking back I think I learned some of the same truths in this blog, especially the...
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