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The fabric of our lives … is not cotton
I had decided that I had enough friends. We were preparing to move to a small town in Ohio, for only a year mind you, and I was content that I didn’t need to make any new friends. I had great friends from college and from growing up and I was content. But I guess…
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Just another lullaby
I don’t pretend to be a great writer. I write because it is my journal and my release, and I write publicly because I hope that somehow anything or something I say might resonate with even one single person. But sometimes I don’t really bare it all, those deepest feelings of pain and fear, sometimes…
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Omniscient Grace
Sometimes we learn amazing lessons about God from our children. Unconditional love. Instant forgiveness. Pure joy. But sometimes God uses our own words to our children to teach us. We have a baby monitor to hear our kids at night. All three of our boys share a room and it lets us hear the fights and…
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Who am I? I am…
Who am I? I’ve always had many answers for that question. At different points in my life and in different conversations, I would have said: I am … a perfectionist. I am … a lawyer. I am … an organized person. I am … a runner. I am … a cleaner. I am … an…
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Getting nothing done?
I often lie in bed at night and either think to myself or say aloud to my husband “I got absolutely nothing done today.” It is usually because something unexpected happened – a snow day, one of the kids is sick, several phone calls from case workers or insurance problems. I have a list. I…
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I’ll take Blessed, with a side of MPS
I often say that I wouldn’t wish MPS on anyone else. The heartache, the initial despair, the sorrow that somehow something you did brought this horror on your family, the gut wrenching sobbing that makes you throw up before you ever get a normal breath back. No. Of course I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.…
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A Life, Distracted
We grow up. We go to college (or not). We meet a wonderful person. We get married. We have children. We work. We play. We sleep (or not so much). We watch TV. We play video games. We Facebook and tweet. We talk incessantly about minute, politics, the market, the weather. We clean (or not).…