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moreWhen You Feel like Everyone is Bigger, Better, Smarter… { or ‘How to be a Star’}
On Monday, May 13 th, 2013When the fog meandered in lost on a spring evening in May, she hung her apron up in the back mudroom. She wandered down the back lane too. Down in the woods, she could hear them, the frogs singing, an invisible symphony. She knotted the one side of her skirt up to step over a pothole. She tried to make her way. In a world of reaching, how do you rest? In a cul...
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moreHappy May! How to Make a Better Future
On Wednesday, May 01 st, 2013A better future always simply begins — in a series of prayerful nows. :: :: “If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cle...
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moreHow to Focus in an Age of Distraction: 10 Things to do Before you Click {Printable}
On Wednesday, April 24 th, 2013There are robins finally. And mud ringing the laundry room tub and the clocking ticking and the faucet dripping. We turn pages. Get turned around. Somebody stubs their toe. Somebody is held. Somebody holds on. A screen flickers. There is only so much time. {10 Things to d...
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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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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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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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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 seeking simple, peaceful days …
On Tuesday, June 05 th, 2012No one receives the peace of God without giving thanks to God. Thankfulness is the deep, contented breath of Peacefulness. “I tread no path in life to Him unknown, I lift no burden, bear no pain, alone; My soul a calm, sure hiding place has found: The everlasting arms my life surround.&#...
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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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moreThe Purpose of Pain: When Life Hurts
On Tuesday, May 15 th, 2012She stood under all that blue sky and watched the windmill spin round and was it the all the world turning that she could feel? How it spun and hurt and unfurled. Dandelions unfolded at her feet — suns, risings e...
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moreA Perfect DIY Mother’s Day …………… {or “How to make Your Own R&R Day”}
On Saturday, May 12 th, 2012Because there are days when every mother – every woman – just needs to have her own perfect little DIY project: 1. Go for walk just anywhere quiet, ju...
