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moreBest Way to Get Through Hard Times
On Friday, January 18 th, 2013It’s what I sang over dishes. Sang on the days when I felt too weary to take another step, clean up another mess, change another diaper. Keep singing when I need to keep going on. It’s what I sing when the enemy attacks with lies, when I feel alone and scared,...
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more2012: A Year in Photos {and 7 Links for 2013}
On Saturday, December 29 th, 2012From calendar page to calendar page, the moments are our lives and the years are blinks. {just a few photos from the farm and 2012:} ...
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moreWhy the Chicken Really Crossed the Road… And Other Important Things {Crazy Joy: 11}
On Thursday, October 11 th, 2012On the day that the chickens just up and crossed the road without their motives being questioned at all, the whole crazy grace of everything just stretched, down the backroads and si...
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moreThe Best Way to Handle Hunger Cravings {The Pumpkin Cannon Edition: Fridays on the Farm}
On Friday, September 28 th, 2012The men brought the pumpkin cannon. And all the church ladies brought pie, 160 pies. We made peach. And my brother rolled out of bed in the 2 am dark to begin the pig roast under stars. ...
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moreThe Truth about Really Having it All
On Friday, September 21 st, 2012I t was after the waves. After the waves of contractions, after the waves of blow out diapers and wet nursing pads that leaked through the let downs and the damp spit blankets that piled high at the bedroom door. Long after the waves of colic at 3 am and the 4:30 am crying, both the swaddl...
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moreThe Importance of Putting the Camera Down… Just Now & Then
On Tuesday, September 11 th, 2012Summer holds on a bit and really, who can mind the clinging? When we pack up the kids and head to the woods, we drive tent pegs into the earth, and we walk in bare feet and it is right like this. ...
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moreHow to Pick a Better Future
On Monday, August 06 th, 2012A ugust meets the morning dressed in light and perfumed in fresh cut hay and wreaths of daisies, all the petals absolutely positive that He loves. So she lined the sill with vases and filled them with the certainty and a better future always begins in a series of thankful nows. {It’s a holiday here in...
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moreHow to Pray {Friday on the Farm}
On Friday, June 22 nd, 2012She prayed and she worked and the prayers were the work that would outlast fire. And that is what she thought, there at the window with the cloth in her hand. Pray ...
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moreWhen You need Rest …. {Fridays on the Farm}
On Friday, June 08 th, 2012When it grows loud in the corners of everything and the walls of the soul quake just a bit, I go and sit in the soil where the corn grows by His certain goodness and right out of the earth. Where the ...
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moreWhen the World gets Loud & Divisive
On Tuesday, May 22 nd, 2012Standing out there in the garden, all the spinach leaves offered up like bunches of bouquets there at her feet, she listened for the quiet. The corn grew in straight rows. The apple blossoms made promises. The irises unfolded bold hope. Roots would wait for rain. Seeds would be faithful to...
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moreTop Time Management Secrets to Know
On Thursday, April 19 th, 2012‘God gives us time. But who has time for God? This may not make any good sense. A we...
