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Continue reading →: Whatever is lovely- 5 for your weekendDepression, in my family, is inherited along with steely blue eyes, long limbs and a weak chin. It’s something I write about not infrequently. But I’m not always depressed. With the help of medication and intentional acts of setting my mind on things good, true and lovely, as God’s word…
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Continue reading →: Christ in the Enneagram 9 Peacemaker and INFJI’m intrigued by personality typing. In my connections on Twitter I’ve come to learn of the Enneagram. I’m very much a novice, but I’m convinced after the bit of reading and listening to the Enneagram Journey podcast with a 9, that I’m a 9- a Peacemaker. I also recently took…
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Continue reading →: The Older WomanYou walked ahead not knowing I was thirty years behind. I was nineteen putting on a ring promising till death. You were forty-one walking through the valley of the shadow ahead of me. Three decades later a block apart our boundaries and times cross providentially. Silver hair ahead of my…
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Continue reading →: A theology of loving your unbelieving spouseA Facebook friend recently asked a question after reading my piece about the 8 words. Her question in essence was, “How does God want you to love your husband when he doesn’t share the same love of Christ you have?” I’m not a seminary graduate, but as my pastor says, I…
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Continue reading →: body, bread and gummy fruitI “teach” a preschool class at my church a couple times a month. It’s not really teaching, it’s an effort in preventing total rebellion amongst 4 year olds for 1 hour. This poem was sparked by how God always uses those kids to teach me what it’s like to be…
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Continue reading →: 5 helps for hard, I mean, all marriagesIn September my husband and I will have been married for 25 years. And that’s no testimony to our skill, secrets or practices. We’ve done just about everything wrong. And making it this long is no guarantee that we’ll make it another 25 years. When our friends ask how we’er…
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Continue reading →: Beauty in the messy business of loving peopleWe’ve been home from our wilderness retreat for over a week. While we were there I soaked up the beauty in the nature all around me. The tall green Pines and Spruce and the shimmering Aspen made me feel like I was tasting a bit of heaven. I intentionally observed…
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Continue reading →: These 8 words: My beloved is mine and I am his“My beloved is mine and I am his…” Song of Solomon 2:16 So the people who know these things (at least the ones I’ve heard) say the Song of Solomon is about a husband and his wife. It’s a love story. Others say its about Christ and his Church. A…
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Continue reading →: I don’t want to write about depressionI’ve been struggling since Thursday when we left the lodge at Hannagan Meadow. I thought I was just bummed because we were leaving, but the heavy sadness in my face and chest hasn’t left since Thursday. I’ve been irritable, tired, on the verge of tears and numb. It’s depression. I…
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Continue reading →: Our wildlife sighting adventure in the Apache Blue Range Primitive AreaI saw a black bear cub today. I caught a brown Trout. I went to New Mexico and back into Arizona on a fire road through a spot on the map called Blue, Arizona. I saw the white Blue Cowbells in the meadows next to the stream that is the…
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