Eucharistic Living
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moreHow to Breathe Through the Hard Times
On Tuesday, January 22 nd, 2013They were born the same week. Both of them, days apart, two miracle years ago this week. My scribbly little book and her loveliest little person. And my sister had said to me, said into the phone, during early labor — “Tell me I can do this.” And I wait for her to breathe heavy through the mother wave crest...
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moreWhen You are Weary of Vanilla Christianity
On Wednesday, January 16 th, 2013For some ridiculous reason, I keep carrying around green sparkly earrings in my purse. Like I’m hoping someday that I’ll get to wear them — and there just ain’t no Dave Brown way that’s going to happen this side of the great divide and I’m the best with this. Big Mama, she’d wrapped them up and sent them from the great state of Texas ...
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moreHow to Keep in Time with God
On Monday, January 14 th, 2013There wasn’t a morning that she didn’t flick off her bedroom light and find it right there on the edge of the table outside their bedroom door. One round vitamin C that he’d leave out for her, before he went to the barn and his udder-dripping sows. Like he thought she could just take it and keep the day from being infected with grief. Like there was a way to i...
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moreChange the Prepositions in Your Life & You Change Your Life
On Thursday, January 03 rd, 2013The morning after Christmas, what I want most is to forget the saran-wraped left over turkey in the fridge and the pine needles tinkling Charlie Brown-like off the mantle, and just run away. Just high tail it out of Dodge and mid-life and strangling regrets and the centri...
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morePt. 1: How to Begin New Habits {Free Daily Planner}
On Wednesday, January 02 nd, 2013When we read this book , there’s this character that just goes ahead and puts on her “habit.” Shalom pats my shoulder and asks, “What’s a habit?” The amaryllis on the sill, it’s swelling in hope. And I tell Shalom this: a habit is something that is worn. She flickers recognition, nods, turns back to the page. She waits for me to read th...
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moreWhen You Don’t Want A New Year but A New You. . . {Camera Giveaway} *UPDATED with winner
On Tuesday, January 01 st, 2013How Maggie Pluim knew to ask that question, I’ll never know. Grace has it’s unending ways. True, I had told her straight up that I had no intention of showing up for the church’s annual New Year’s Eve party with Marian Brubacher’s caramel popcorn and Viola Gingerich’s raspberry punch and Mr. Vaness’ countless rounds of Dutch Blitz. R...
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more‘Jesus is the Greatest Gift’ Christmas Gifts for Neighbors: Free Printable
On Wednesday, December 19 th, 2012The kids have Adore Him playing and th...
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moreFirst Up: A Christmas Podcast over at Desiring God
On Wednesday, December 19 th, 2012Because I’m with you, friend, wanting nothing more this year than this: Christmas is not something we wrap up, but a Person whom we unwrap... So! Let’s do Just. That. — you & me both. Three posts today… yes, three because who can contain the comforting joy of Christmas? First up this morning: The grace-filled folks at Desiring God h...
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moreWhere is God in the dark of this weekend?
On Saturday, December 15 th, 2012When you can hardly even ask where the heart of God is in all this evil and dark … God takes our broken hearts and gives us His own still-beating heart, His pierced-right-through-and-made-whole heart, so we can still keep breathing. His heart this weekend is in us… in our weeping and moaning and wounded doubts, in the places where we don’t be...
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moreBecause We’re Women in a Long Line of Women {*UPDATED at bottom of post}
On Tuesday, December 11 th, 2012It wasn’t planned or anything, no more than you can get all your ducks lined up in a row — no more than you can stop love from breaking free. I just bent a bit on a December 11th, bent and swayed and prayed, and I had two babies on the same day, December 11th — two years apart. One early in the morning, 6:27 am, in the middle of a Canadian blizzard, and the o...
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moreWhat Your Christmas Needs to Really be Merry
On Monday, December 10 th, 2012The Practice of the Pause And on a whirling world, in the middle of the blur, you just hold a pause — at the end of one smeared moment — and before the next, holding the moments right to their very end with the full length...
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moreThe Best Way to do Christmas Cleaning
On Friday, December 07 th, 2012Why it happened right then, when she turned toward the stack of dishes on the counters, the ...
