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Continue reading →: Casting Cares
(The first year that he’s taller than the tree. Tummy flop.) I have a lot on my mind. A lot of people and circumstances. I was climbing the stairs earlier, attempting to just carry on with my “normal” daily activities and the weight of all these cares brought me to…
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Continue reading →: Pinterestic Life?
I woke up this morning like most mornings- morose, fighting depressing, fatalistic thoughts. Not hopeful. Not joyful. Not positive. I don’t say this because I’m looking for pity or to be a downer. I say it because I’m a mom who writes a blog in a world full of mom-blogs…
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Continue reading →: Of life without a down side
One day I’ll get to endlessly experience life without the down side. I was thinking about that on this beautifully cool, gray, drizzling morning. I was awakened this morning by, “Get up! The cat peed on the bed!” Yeah. That’s the definition of waking up on the wrong side of…
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Continue reading →: Of barely burning embers, a bruised heart and a Beautiful SaviorI came to the end of another journal today. I’ve kept a journal since I was 9, and I still have all my journals from age 13 on. Looking back is hard. And some of the reason it’s hard is pride. It’s flat out embarrassing looking back at some…
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Continue reading →: God is not Dr. Crabby Pants
(Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son Ryland) It started at 1:30 AM, Thursday. I can’t do math in my sleep-deprived brain at this point, but in however many hours it’s been since 1:30 AM Thursday, I’ve had a couple hours of sleep. My husband has had less. Not good. My husband…
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Continue reading →: Mothers, Kings, Spider Webs and Arrogance
WARNING: HEAVY POST! I have to get some things off my chest. “Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zehariah. And…
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Continue reading →: A day of unexpected events
We did not go to Payson as a family, as planned for this Wednesday my husband took off work. Instead, we bought a riding lawn mower off Craigslist and I traded Jed Clampett, my 7 month old Nubian buck for a 7 month old Nubian doe off Craigslist. And, most…
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Continue reading →: Tidbits and a spontaneous poem on my longed-for miracle
I watched Contagion last night. Seemed an appropriate way to end a day spent sleeping away some kind of virus that left me so dizzy and head-achy, I couldn’t get up for more than 30 minutes. It was my first night calling in sick at work, something I…
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Continue reading →: An exercise in getting it out there
Above are pictures from an album I got at my mom’s. They’re stuck together, and are two pics from some of my most vivid middle-school memories. Top left: Last minute science project work with my dad. We built a circuit, due the next morning. I’m still a procrastinator. The one…
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Continue reading →: A real, concrete promise: A meditation on Psalm 121
A Song of Ascents I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will…
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