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Continue reading →: “There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.” – C.S. Lewis
When I read Psalm 8, my mind goes to Lamentations 5. What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. -Psalm…
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Continue reading →: He’s chasing me
I’m married to a police office, even still, when I see an officer behind me, I get all nervous. Suddenly I’m trying to recall everything I learned in driving school. How many feet from an intersection do I need to turn on my blinker? Who has the right of way?…
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Continue reading →: Refuge in the Unchangeable.
I haven’t written consistently over the past few years. In fact, I stopped blogging and journaling about 4 years ago when my husband and I separated. I felt like God shut my mouth (or hands). In part I couldn’t write publicly because I was afraid of what would come out…
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Continue reading →: Anticipation
(Pics from last year’s Oregon trip) We spent almost the entire day at the new house but never managed to see much of each other. The boys were out on the back half of the acre most of the day either digging for treasure, shooting at ant hills with the…
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Continue reading →: Sojourning Sheila
I’m thinking of changing my blog title to: Sojourning Sheila {and so I did}. What I write reflects who I am. Six years ago, when I started blogging, I was inspired by the beauty of making a home and being a helper Imago Dei. I’m still inspired, yet, refined. Several…
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Continue reading →: Momma-Preacher: Meditations on Deuteronomy 6 and 11
“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words I command you today shall be on your heart.” Deuteronomy 6:5-6 Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His…
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Continue reading →: My to do list has a to do list
I don’t know where my friends find those funny sayings and pics they post on Facebook and on their blogs, but if I could find one that says something about every minute of the day being filled with doing things that were planned (or unplanned) or planning things that will…
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Continue reading →: Rebuilding Ruins
In a job interview recently I was asked what I thought my three strengths were, along with my three weaknesses. I named for her two and then I told her the third: organization. But, I told her I actually only saw that as a strength because it really is a…
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Continue reading →: Oh for Stick-to-itiveness and Courage
There’s a paragraph in A Long Obedience In The Same Direction by Eugene Peterson (which I have been away from for awhile, and came back to yesterday) where he talks about the not-so-fancy word: stick-to-it-iveness. He says his mom used to scold him for not possessing stick-to-itevness. He would leave…
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Continue reading →: Sunday morning longing
But may all who search for you be filled with joy and gladness in you. May those who love your salvation repeatedly shout, “God is great!” But as for me, I am poor and needy; please hurry to my aide, O God. You are my helper and my savior; O…
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