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moreWhen You Sort of Feel Like You’re Drowning
On Thursday, May 23 rd, 2013It came after a week of rain. After she driven home through the rain, watched the rain come across fields. It’d ponded between rows. It had sheeted and ponded and thrummed the hood of the pick-up like the drumming of everything thrown at her, everything coming down that never stopped, and all the fields along the 4th line, they had flooded. There were soggy towels on ...
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moreWhen you’re wondering: How God Feels About Storms?
On Tuesday, May 21 st, 2013When the guy on the screen says that he could hear the cries of children underneath the rubble, his voice starts to crack and how in the world does anything stand in a world like this? How do you just put a jug of milk out on the table on a Tuesday and stand there watching your kids eat breakfast, light in their hair, the sky hanging outside the window like a potential Behemot...
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more25 Things Every New, Middle & Graduating Parent and their Grad Needs to Know
On Friday, May 17 th, 2013Look… you get what we all get — a lifetime. Just you or none of us ever get to know how long that will turn out to be. So get to it. Because you woke up 18 this week. You sat at the end of the table after barn chores, grinning like you were just getting stretched up for the starting blocks and the race of your life — and somewhere inside I felt this crossing o...
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moreMorning Espresso 16.5
On Thursday, May 16 th, 2013How to make the Perfect Cup of Tea: George Orwell’s 11 Rules The Best Moment of My Day… This. Slows your heart rate down, yes? What’s yours? On living the Unhurried Life.… read. this. slow. What are your sheer acts of defiance? Ten Inspiring Ways to Your Parenting – no matter where you live…… 5 Minute Glory Holy-day -– the who...
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moreSimply 3 Words For Every Day
On Wednesday, May 15 th, 2013He’d set the alarm for 1 AM on a Monday morning because sometimes a man has to do what he has to do. He’d slept the rest of a Farmer on the Lord’s Day. Then hauled to the fields in the pitch dark just as soon as Monday feebly birthed. Before that sun finally dragged up, he had a whole field worked up and half a ton of dirt ground into his jeans. By sun down...
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moreMorning Espresso 14.5
On Tuesday, May 14 th, 2013The gift for yourself and everyone who loves you: Why we really have to take a walk everyday … physical inactivity is the #4 killer? {I’ll take a photo of my walk today and share on instagram and tag with #1000gifts — you take a photo of your walk too and tag it? Deal.} The role of siblings in mental health — one to pray over… I can’t sto...
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moreWhy Mother’s Day is for the Birds
On Friday, May 10 th, 2013Because I ain’t no Hallmark mother – and none of us are, if we’re really truth-telling here. If we’re honest– and what else is there really — there were burnt dinners and yelling mornings and neck strained words over lost shoes and scattered Legos and unfinished homework and there were crumpled tears behind bathroom doors. Not to mention t...
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moreMorning Espresso 9.5
On Thursday, May 09 th, 2013{usually links are shared over there on the sidebar ‘ponderings’… trying something a little new and crazy today and we’ll see if it works? Regular, actual post for today to follow, maybe, we’ll see, Lord willing?} Catalyst Atlanta 2013 … Grateful to be serving, Lord willing, with Priscilla Shirer, Lysa TerKeurst, John Piper, Andy Stanley, Bo...
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moreSo God Made a Mother:
When the Giving Tree is Really The Giving Mother *UpdatedOn Monday, May 06 th, 2013So, sure, there was this talk of The Giving Tree – but there wasn’t one of us who didn’t know all along it was you, The Giving Mother. You who leaned over a stove and stirred and let spices fall like leaves and you ladled and we slurped and it would be remembered when we were old, the meatballs that you shaped and the noodles on Sunday nights with the Mag...
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more40 Things You Need to Know Before You’re 40 . . . . Letters to a Woman Mid-Way
On Tuesday, April 30 th, 2013Dear Self, Look, you have only got so many days till your midway. Till you’ve heard almost half the morning doves you ever will. Felt the sun on your face half as many chances as you’ll have, laughed half as many times as you’ll ever know — and who knows, maybe most of your God-blessed moments are already passed? So for the holy sake of sanity get off th...
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moreHow to Focus in an Age of Distraction: 10 Things to do Before you Click {Printable}
On Wednesday, April 24 th, 2013There are robins finally. And mud ringing the laundry room tub and the clocking ticking and the faucet dripping. We turn pages. Get turned around. Somebody stubs their toe. Somebody is held. Somebody holds on. A screen flickers. There is only so much time. {10 Things to do Before You Click: Print one for every screen? Make it a screensaver?} The thing is – ...
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more10 Links to Share Some Happy Love this Weekend
On Saturday, April 20 th, 20131. Breathe Deep. Smile. Hold the smile. There — feels better already, doesn’t it? Again…. Perfect! 2. Take a Mini Vacation right now – Go slow. Breathe Deep. Stunning, eh? 3. We’re alive just right now– promise you’ll go outside and play just even for 5 minutes today? 4. Clean the house quick (really!) and this will only take a minu...
