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moreThe One Song No Woman can Afford to Miss
On Tuesday, April 23 rd, 2013I heard of a woman once, who when she was with child, she turned and this song swelled in her, her child’s own song, and she would hum it as she washed pots. Hum it as she did her hair up, hum that song like a beckoning. And when that woman swayed at the end of her ripening, just before the child came, she had hummed it low between each tightening, how she had hummed that...
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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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moreYour Care Guide: 25 Point Manifesto for Sanity in 2013
On Thursday, January 24 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, a manifesto for sanity 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 it on...
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moreOne of the Key Secrets about Joy . . . . . {Free Printable}
On Tuesday, October 02 nd, 2012“Choose Joy. The universe works this way: you can choose joy like your weather, like your very own sky. Like your very own oxygen.” For the one key secret and a very free printable … and a space to be real and velveteen – Please come join in over here today? We’re saving a place just for you. ...
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moreWhen You feel like Pulling Your Hair Out…
On Thursday, July 26 th, 2012“This is the order of love: First love is patient. And patience is first a willingness to say thanks in suffering. Patience in the moment only comes from gratefulness for the moment. …. ” continue reading . . Feeling the pressure of life? Struggling to be patient...
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moreA Prayer for the Broken Hearted
On Thursday, May 31 st, 2012The best way to tend to your open wounds is to open your arms. Out-loving is the only ointment that healed anything. : : We’re over here today…
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more15 Reasons Why Community is Important …. {Even if You’ve Been Hurt}
On Thursday, April 12 th, 2012: 15 Reasons To Keep Reaching out {Even When You’ve Been Hurt} 1. Christ is the Body and He is Love and both can only exist in community 2. God’s people are given the ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5) and reconciliation begins first in our homes, down the street, in this pew, around the corner, in community — or we are mini...
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moreThe Importance of Being the Prodigal Parent
On Thursday, March 15 th, 2012I don’t know who said you couldn’t, but they were dead wrong. You could be death wish over a toilet, a flagrant sinner over a credit card, a Pharisee over a pulpit, and it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter a hill of beans. And it’s a hill I’d die on, because that’s exactly why a Carpenter really did: Whoever you are, wherever you’...
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more4 Ways to be a Better Friend
On Thursday, February 23 rd, 2012It was after Mare Griebe* said she was done with me, that I knew. Mare, she had taken me to my first youth Bible study. She delivered the thick folded notes from the first boy who ever asked me out. And I had flown half across the country to be her maid of honor, then again, ten years later to hold her first baby. We talked lactation and I helped with latch and I thought we...
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more5 Ways to Fight Through to a Loving Marriage {What You’re Trying to Tell Him When You’re Angry}
On Thursday, February 09 th, 2012Ithink we were standing outside the back door, out by the white pickup under the Big Dipper, when I turned and said it. Said I hated him. The dark can make you brave. Or a fool. But when you’re twenty-two and think you know everything, panic can tear up your chest like this howl that has to rip free. “I hate it when you stand there all quiet.”...
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moreTiger Mother? The Making of Velveteen Mothers
On Tuesday, October 25 th, 2011Working through motherhood over here in this post today… Join the conversation over here… :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
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moreIf You’ve Ever Been Wounded by Women…
On Tuesday, September 27 th, 2011The dark’s ever bothered me much. It’s women who have scared me. Women can haunt with shadows of their own. … Ever been wounded by women? Why hadn’t I been patient with friendship? Why hadn’t I seen that the price of being safe — is the cost of being solitary? Why hadn’t I seen th...
