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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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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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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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moreThe Best Way to Handle Hunger Cravings {The Pumpkin Cannon Edition: Fridays on the Farm}
On Friday, September 28 th, 2012The men brought the pumpkin cannon. And all the church ladies brought pie, 160 pies. We made peach. And my brother rolled out of bed in the 2 am dark to begin the pig roast under stars. ...
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moreThe Easy Plan Before Summer Ends . . . . . . {14 Things to do in the last 2 weeks}
On Friday, August 17 th, 2012Two weeks left. Two weeks of sweet corn and swimming suits and bare toes and zinnia bouquets and light like this in their hair and all the days ar...
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moreThe Very Best Way to Schedule Your Life {The Law of Life}
On Thursday, August 09 th, 2012I confess, it felt counter-intuitive—just plain wrong. Just plain, straight out wrong to bend over each strawberry plant, press the delicate white petals — and all subsequent hopes of fleshy scarlet sweet — press between thumb and index finger — and then just pluck it off. I had forced myself o...
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moreThe Hourglass of Joy
On Wednesday, July 04 th, 2012After such a week as last week, I’m feeling very small & hushed & I’ve slipped away to the woods with the Farmer & kids. Thank you for prayers last week, for grace as our family tucks away quiet for just a few days…and we’re delighted to invite you up to the front porch to share with some of the best writers on the Web — today, with a ...
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moreHow to Unplug {More}: 10 Things to Do {Pick 1 Before You Click}
On Tuesday, June 19 th, 2012Print out and tape to the side of every screen: Why slow down and unplug {more}: ‘They say time is money, but that’s not true. Time is life. And if you want the fullest life, you need to find fullest time. God gives us time. But who has time for God? This makes no...
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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...
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moreTop Time Management Secrets to Know
On Thursday, April 19 th, 2012‘God gives us time. But who has time for God? This may not make any good sense. A we...
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morewhen you are looking for His steadying hand
On Thursday, March 29 th, 2012That is what came at the end. At the end of the day, aft...
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moreThe 1 Reason Why You have to Slow Down
On Monday, March 19 th, 2012We hear them far off in the woods, just as the sun sinks further down. And I stop. Because who doesn’t stop when the world slips up behind and surprises you? So we stand there and listen long and neither one of us can stop smiling and I almost forget to breathe. The frogs have return...
