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Forget Me Not

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You know how it goes. You’re sitting there in traffic, or washing the shampoo out of your hair, or grabbing two silent minutes alone in the locked bathroom before tiny little fingers feel beneath the door (What are they looking for anyway? Are they hoping they can grab ahold of you and rip you back out of the bathroom via that 1.5 inch tall space?)… where was I? Oh yes. You know how it goes. When you forget something. Usually you’re in the middle of something completely unrelated and you ... VIEW POST

What I Need My Daughter To Know…

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None of us are guaranteed the blessing and opportunity to raise our children the way we raise them in our minds.  In my mind, I see myself swinging on the porch swing with their daddy when we're old and gray - or in her daddy's case, old and bald. I see my sweet daughter and her loving husband walking hand-in-hand up the walkway with our newest grandbaby toddling along behind. I see sunshine and rainbows and a fulfilled life, in need of nothing, yet not having everything.Maybe life will end ... VIEW POST

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Seasons of the Proverbs 31 Woman

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I've had this picture in my head for the last six months. It's a woman, and she's walking through a wheat field - breeze blowing, gauzy white cotton dress flowing. I saw her in my dreams, and I longed to be her.Little did I know - she was longing to be me too.  My life has been one crazy cycle of gathering and sloughing. Gathering something... and then years later, that whatever it is, is broken... shattered... sloughed. When I was in my 20's, and even early 30's, I gathered degrees. First ... VIEW POST

No One Goes To The Altar Alone

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It was like an unwritten rule at my last church. No one goes to the altar alone.I loved that about them. It was one of the first things that pricked my heart about the church when I was visiting. No matter who you were, when you went to the altar, there was always someone who followed you up there to put their arm around you and just be. It wasn't creepy, it just happened. They crossed genders, ages barriers, and races. In seven years, I never once saw someone alone at the alter. And I was ... VIEW POST