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more12 Links to Share Some Happy Grace
On Saturday, June 08 th, 2013Just sharing a bit of lovely grace…. We all need some, yes? 1. Beautiful free printables for you! Can’t you see these in a young girl’s room? Down the hallway, over a desk? Love. these. yes. 2. Make mistakes? Make enough of them? This…on making enough mistakes. 3. What is burnout, ...
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more7 Things You Need When You’re Overwhelmed & Can’t Keep Up
On Monday, June 03 rd, 2013They say that there are 62 lego pieces for every one person on the planet. And I’m thinking that with that thrifted rubbermaid tub found at the Sally Ann, this house has several thousand over that ratio. There are legos across the basement floor and under the boys’ bed and scattered ones abandoned in the bottom of drawers, remnants of pockets and dreams. ...
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moreHappy June! Make it Great: 7 Links to Share the Joy in June
On Saturday, June 01 st, 20131. There’s No place like our Eternal Homes — from a family facing tornadoes 2. Girlfriend is better – This line: “Apparently extra genetic material on the 21st chromosome means that God stayed His hand with the rest of us. The rest of us struggle all our days to love as well.” ...
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moreMorning Espresso: 10 Links for an Amazing Week
On Monday, May 27 th, 2013Free Printable: “Today I am Grateful” Tape on the fridge. Change the week. Smile. Lawn-sized Bananagrams? Yes, Please. 5 Things Your Sponsored Child Can Never Tell You Just take 5 minutes and read. This. Caption These. Seriously. Grab someone and ask them to ...
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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 cru...
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moreThe Ultimate Girlfriend Gift
On Wednesday, May 08 th, 2013We threw stones first. I mean — after we’ve all been bloodied by stones, why not just start there? Effie Bryce sat near Nan Marlin. And Greta Vanderhoef and Darlene Finch, and 75 year-old Mrs. Margaret van Veen who led me to Jesus when I was a kid and the elderly Mrs. King who lives on the farm ...
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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 ...
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more4 Steps to Take When You’re Not Ready for Change
On Thursday, May 02 nd, 2013They made bubbles right out on the lawn at dusk. As if you can lift the thin skin of things. As if you can wait for the space between stillness and wind, and rise. ...
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moreHow to Start the Week
On Monday, April 29 th, 2013So many things trying to find its way into words after this weekend… but now, just here — and the crazy that is now and right and grace. And it comes perfectly unexpected and it’s true, how to start the week – Laughter’s an instant holiday. Making now a holy-day. “A relaxed attitude lengthens a man’s life.” (Proverbs...
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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 d...
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moreBecause Sometimes the World Needs Joy-in-a-Box
On Monday, April 22 nd, 2013Joy for someone struggling in the dark? Mother’s Day? Someone in need of a pick-me-up? The One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces and the photographic gift book, Selections from One Thousand Gifts were both nominated as finalists for the Best Devotional and Best Gift Book in the Christian Retailer’s Choice Awards. Maybe today&#...
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moreWhat Gosnell and the Gospel Mean to the Brave …
On Tuesday, April 16 th, 2013Dear Son, So your GPS can say that it’s about 5 hours and 24 minutes from Steubenville to Gosnell’s clinic in Philadelphia? But you’d be about right if you said Gosnell and Steubenville were right around the corner from one another. And you were about right when you said that Gosnell is as much about us as Steubenville ever was. ...
