Family
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moreCome to the Easter Garden {A Christian Easter Family Activity}
On Thursday, March 14 th, 2013So the thing is, back there in the beginning, we all had this shattering fall in a garden. And we mark it on the calendar, Christ, falling in the garden of Gethsemane. Christ, righting our messy fall. So the kids and I, we put our hands into dirt, and we remember our garden fall and His garden grace, and we make a Grace Garden for Easter. ...
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moreThe 1 Command that Could Resurrect the Church, Our Hurting Places & the Sisterhood of Women
On Wednesday, March 13 th, 2013There’s a reason He called us His Body and not His Estate.” That’s what Tib Pearson told me. Tib with his Red Wing workboots and worn John Deere hat and hands weathered and etched like a greying cedar rail. “A Body is connected with sinew and vein — and an estate is divided with fences and line.” He said it with his hands, the way a man of the land...
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more10 Links for a Wondrous Weekend
On Saturday, March 02 nd, 20131. For a Saturday morning: One of the Differences between Happy and Miserable Marriages: Chores 2. And then, for your Saturday afternoon book reading inspiration… ah, scroll slow. 3. Just. beautiful. {Consider muting Mr. Nevue’s music over there in the left sidebar, clicking on the speaker icon? and RSS readers may click here for the video} 4. Th...
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moreHow to Make a Miracle Happen
On Friday, February 22 nd, 2013They still do happen, miracles, a bit like a flash in the sky. Coming up the backside of th...
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moreThe 1 Thing You Really Have to Know About Your Family
On Thursday, February 21 st, 2013Over here today …. It’s good to be rocked and changed with you all… Related: Of Women & Sisters & Family & How You Really Speak Lent Why It’s Okay to Cry When Lent and Valentines Collide: 40 Days of ThanksLoving
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moreOf Women & Sisters & Family & How You Really Speak Lent
On Wednesday, February 20 th, 2013So Shalom has this bag made by 3 Cords in Haiti that she carries her shoes and Bible in it to Wednesday night Kids Club, and sometimes a hen or a pig, depending on how the day slants and careens. That’s the bag the kid keeps hanging on the first hook inside the bac...
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moreWhy It’s Okay to Cry
On Monday, February 18 th, 2013Apparently if you try to carry a vintage sewing machine through an airport security in your carry-on, you can get yourself patted won. Even if you have all your white hair wrapped up in a bun and you are wearing worn Reeboks with your skirt. Mama just took it like a grandma, thanked TSA, grabbed her bag with said sewing machine and marshalled us like a battalion: “LetR...
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moreWhy Doing Lent This Year Is What You Really Need . . . . . (and a Free Family Lent & Easter Devotional)
On Tuesday, February 12 th, 2013I can’t seem to follow through in giving up for Lent. Which makes me want to just give up Lent. Which makes me question Who I am following. Which may precisely be the point of Lent. Last week, I’m standing on a table, snapping the shutter on a bouquet of roses, when by brother calls. Levi picks it u...
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moreGod Made a Mother and You — So Farmer On!
On Monday, February 04 th, 2013I sat beside a girl in Mr. Seuter’s grade nine math class who said she was getting out of here. She was getting out of this no name little farming town and she was getting out of this hick place with its hick boys and she was getting free of everything her daddy ever was. I knew her daddy. He was known for planting row...
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moreA Life Plan When You’re Overwhelmed: Sanity Manifesto Printable
On Saturday, January 26 th, 2013So I’m a mess and we’re all failures — at least all the honest of us are. And the truth is, no one ever runs before they take baby steps. So I scratch down these 25 points, like my own sanity manifesto, and there are a thousand ways in a thousand seasons to make a life glorify God. I scrawl out mine, which would be different than yours, and make a place for...
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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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more5 Things You Need to Know Before You Begin Your 2nd Term of Life
On Monday, January 21 st, 2013It felt like the second term to her. Her 39 and him about 40, and the first half over, now the beginning of the second. Or of the end — depending how you looked at it. You don’t get to make up most of your story. That’s what she thought at the stove over eggs, over all the cracked and broken things. ...
