1000Gifts
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morewhen you’re thinking it’s time to give up…
On Monday, June 13 th, 2011I ‘m looking in the mirror this morning, looking at what lies ahead, at what lies within, and I’m thinking it may be time to give up. Give up, once and for all — give up all the fears and all that weighs heavy. Give up the worries — and “bend the knee and be small and let God give what God chooses to give — because He only gives love.”Â...
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moreHow to Find Your Perfect Weight
On Monday, June 06 th, 2011I don’t think of it then, when I raise my  hands up in what isn’t —  well, precisely, praise. More this throwing lift of lament and exhausted surrender and end-of-the-day fatigue. And I can’t say that it occurred to me then — that it really could be that we were born with two hands because we never stop weighing the good against the bad, today ag...
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morewhen you’re looking for God in the Moment {free gratitude calendar for June}
On Monday, May 30 th, 2011tulips in yellow pitchers holding hands in hardware stores Printing out these free scrabble ...
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morewhen what you’ve got doesn’t seem like enough
On Monday, May 23 rd, 2011T hey kneel in dirt, their heads near touching, and their laughter, it’s the song of the seraphim. The dog’s running in the wheat behind the plot for the garden, gold breaking through green. I sort seed packets, all rattling promise. And every single one of the kids, they’re startling grimy, dirt ringing eyes like raccoons, what picking stone...
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when you’re thinking it’s time to give up
On Thursday, May 19 th, 2011I ‘m looking in the mirror this morning, looking at what lies ahead, at what lies within, and I’m thinking it may be time to give up. Give up, once and for all — give up all the fears and all that weighs heavy. Give up the worries — and “bend the knee and be small and let God give what God chooses to give — because He only gives love.” ...
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moreHaving it All?
On Monday, May 16 th, 2011There is old light on the grain of the cutting board. I notice and run my fingers along lines of time and wood and the sharp edge of scars. The days here are simple and I keep looking. Blessings can be shy things, coming in disguise. And the thousands of gifts can be named in simply One: Christ. Â For from Him and to Him and through Him are all things, and He has the supremacy ...
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morewhen it all feels a bit like a mismatched mess
On Monday, May 09 th, 2011It was at the end of it all that I held it, how the smallest of gifts can most enlarge a heart. On Mother’s Day, I’m the mother walking out of chapel with the son who is wearing shoes. It’s just shoes that don’t happen to match — one brown and one green. And the son smirks and I’m the messed up mother hanging onto a singular thread of unbreakable grace. ...
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morewhen you’re looking for light at the end of the tunnel {& free May Gratitude Calendar Printable}
On Monday, May 02 nd, 2011I walk a beach at the outer rim. Egyptians have fifty words for sand, and Eskimos, a hundred for snow. How to find a thousand words for the joy of all this grace we walk in? Everywhere, water running, rivulets, out to oceans. Everywhere, light glinting. ...
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more“Let a Man Who is Thirsty…”
On Monday, April 18 th, 2011‘Let a man who is thirsty be brought to an ocean of pure water, and he has enough… God is a satisfying good — the soul cries out, ‘I have enough.’ God is the chief good. That which is the chief good must ravish the soul with pleasure! There must be in it rapturous delight and quintessence of joy! God is the chief good. Therefore the enjoyment of h...
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moreWhen You’re feeling a bit Broken {free weekly gratitude journal}
On Monday, April 04 th, 2011*updated links to print photo to print photo :: This fallen world never stops dis-membering and we all break apart a bit more everyday… The kids squabble, we sit in ER rooms, we fail old friends, the dog dies, dinner burns. And even in the ache, God whispers: Give thanks anyways — do this in re-membrance of Me. W...
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moreAnd so goes the Posture of the Body of Christ…
On Monday, March 28 th, 2011All is grace, if the knee’s surrendered. All is grace, if the eyes see and believe. All is grace, if the heart receives all with gratitude, trusting the goodness of God. And when all is grace, God working all things to certain good, it’s our hands that hands that rise in thanks, open and willingly to fully receive… ...
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moreWhen Your Days Are Numbered
On Monday, March 21 st, 2011There are not so many. In morning light in the woods, I kneel low with a camera. In a clearing of saplings, a woman smiles into the March winds. I click the shutter. She began chemo this week to contain four cancerous lumps that can’t contain her mouthed thanks to God. I say, “Cheese!” and her four-year-old tilts his head and flashes his dimple. Her five children ring her...
