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moreWhy Weak is the New Strong: Radical Right Where You Are {Pt4}
On Wednesday, February 06 th, 2013So I fell extremely anemic in the fall. Could hardly drag out of bed, felt like jello, looked like a gaunt ghost, and got winded walking from the sink to the stove. I’d draped arms around the Farmer’s neck and told him I was sure I was right broke. ...
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moreWhen You Give Up, and You Break, You’ve Made It
On Tuesday, January 29 th, 2013So that’s what I told my pretty wondrous friend, Sarah Mae: “My kids don’t need a SuperMama. They need to see a Mama who needs a Super God.” And Sarah Mae, author of Desperate, she nodded — and she guest posts with this story here today: ‘I don’t want to be a servant – I want to be a Caroline.” So says the three year old...
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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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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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moreHow to Be the Parent You Want to Be: 40 Things Every Child Must Know Before They Leave Home
On Friday, January 11 th, 2013Dear Son — You have to know how your unfolding from me was a miracle. That’s the miraculous thing about miracles – they really do happen. How is it in this crazy, holy world does a girl-woman bear a boy-child? How does she raise a squalling boy-child into a man? What can a woman know about raising a man? And this the thing: there’s only so much t...
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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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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 ...
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moreHow to Not Miss Your Real Life Calling
On Friday, November 16 th, 2012When they cut the three right open and start pulling out the inner guts, there isn’t a sound in the room. They’re focused and silent and pulling at strings and ripping away at things and I wonder if I am doing any of this ridiculous thing right? Not the pumpkins — I could care less how we hack these three up. It’s the kids, this year, my life. ...
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moreHow to Make Any Place Happy
On Wednesday, October 24 th, 2012And after 11 years here, we paint the walls white, all the walls white, right over the shades of softest green, because in the beginning I wanted a cocoon and now I just want clean, the quiet of clean. Because if you’re saying the average nowadays family has two kids? And we have three times the average with these ridiculous six— then you multiply the age of these...
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moreWhat Every Hard Week Needs to Know
On Monday, September 24 th, 2012Sometimes, even right before it really begins, you know how the week’s going to go. I look in the mirror early on a Monday morning, the bedhead looking more like a monsterhead, and I look right into that water-splattered mirror. And tell the woman looking back at me how the next seven days are likely to go down — are going to likely try to take me down. ...
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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...
