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Continue reading →: April fools, Easter, the Prodigal and my sonI wonder what the son who betrayed his father’s love and provision, left home squandered it all and came back seeking restoration was like the years before he decided to leave. I wonder if he resisted his father’s love and discipline. I wonder if he threatened that as soon…
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Continue reading →: Are you saying divorce for abuse or adultery is “giving up” on your marriage?Responding to issues brought up about divorce by readers of my recent article at Desiring God
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Continue reading →: I’m tired but I’m not giving upIf you drove through the Panera parking lot at around noon today in Surprise you may have seen a puffy-eyed, blonde woman in a silver Edge, teetering on the edge of a full-fledged meltdown. I don’t mean like violent crazy meltdown. I mean sobbing and bawling like a two year…
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Continue reading →: Ash Wednesday is a perfect Valentine.I’ve grown thick-skinned after 26 hard years. At seventeen this small-town girl met a big-city boy and fell into infatuation. After two years of dating, and three break-ups, I married that rebellious, out-of-town boy who walked into my life wearing torn and bleached blue jeans, long blonde hair and a…
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Continue reading →: 7 Thing Keeping Me Awake Tonight
I worked a twelve and half hour day on the acute rehab unit today. Made chili dogs for my sons when I got home and a bowl of sautéed veggies, brown rice and quinoa for myself with a glass of pinot grigo. Worked in my powerpoint presentation for my community…
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Continue reading →: We Bear the MarkSince the legalization of abortion 45 years ago millions of women have bought the lie that the death of this new life forming in them will somehow save theirs. And now they live with pain and shame and mocking of that lie. Today in thinking about being a woman, a…
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Continue reading →: Confessions of a white evangelical womanI guess the people that decide such things would categorize me as a white evangelical. Depending on what you read or who you ask, in our current social context, that might sound like I’m a Trump-voting, Religious-Right, conservative Republican. I’m none of those. But I am white, and I am…
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Continue reading →: Free- poem and thoughts from 1 Thessalonians 2I’ve been thinking about 1 Thessalonians 2 a lot today. It’s such a great telling of what the life free of the fear of man looks like as well as a blueprint for ministry, even as a mom and wife. To boldly speak the gospel amidst conflict. To be gentle,…
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Continue reading →: An explosion of praise reading JobJob’s story always gets me. I feel so much of the sense that, “This just isn’t right! This guy didn’t deserve this!” And at the same time the sense that, “This is how God works. He is working something eternal and wonderful in us through suffering.” I don’t claim to…
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Continue reading →: End of day thoughts. And a silly poem.
Sinus Cacophony by Sheila Dougal Should be sweet voice Soft child speak Should be jolly laughs Make smiles peak But throbbing face Every sound creates Sinus Cacophony And that’s about all I can muster today folks. The sinus headache is in full force today. Despite it’s stabbing, throbbing anger, I…
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