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more25 Things Every New, Middle & Graduating Parent and their Grad Needs to Know
On Friday, May 17 th, 2013Look… you get what we all get — a lifetime. Just you or none of us ever get to know how long that will turn out to be. So get to it. Because you woke up 18 this week. You sat at the end of the table after barn chores, grinning like you were just getting stretched up for the starting blocks and the race of your life — and somewhere inside I felt this crossing o...
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moreMorning Espresso 12.5 {Mother’s Day Edition… with new (Free) #1000Gifts App!}
On Sunday, May 12 th, 2013Genetic Portraits… crazy wonderful, eh? A Snapshot in Time.. you too? As she lay Dying... when it’s hard with your Mother today… Why Mother’s Day is for the Birds… The Truth about the real Mother’s Day Mothers The impact of one mother and the Boston Marathon bombings — this. Your Free Mother’s ...
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moreMorning Espresso 9.5
On Thursday, May 09 th, 2013{usually links are shared over there on the sidebar ‘ponderings’… trying something a little new and crazy today and we’ll see if it works? Regular, actual post for today to follow, maybe, we’ll see, Lord willing?} Catalyst Atlanta 2013 … Grateful to be serving, Lord willing, with Priscilla Shirer, Lysa TerKeurst, John Piper,...
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more3 Things to Hold on to in a World Falling Apart
On Thursday, April 18 th, 2013On a Thursday night, the two of us wake and lie under the pelting of the roof with a thousand lashes of glass. His fingers find mine. I half smile in the dark. How he knows, how the way to live through life’s lashing is to lash yourself to love, to God. The ice whips on at the windows. The wind slaps. Trees creak loud. As if you could freeze Spring over. ...
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more…. Rise. Rise up {Easter Sunday Reflection}
On Sunday, March 31 st, 2013The cornerstone of Christianity is this rotting cell sparking, a heart valve quivering in the pitch, a beetle scratching in the black while convex chest cavity shudders, sunken death inflating with His hot breath, atoms of the second Adam recreating all the universe. :: :: Can you feel it, within, in your darkest pla...
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moreWhen You’re Feeling Dry for Holy Week . . . . {Christian Easter Activity}
On Tuesday, March 26 th, 2013{Two posts today… second one will be up around 3:00 pm EST} Dad always did that after the meat and potatoes, after the plates were cleared and stacked. He’d ask for a toothpick. Him in his plaid flannel shirt and Levi’s, looking for a bit of a tree to right everything again. That’s what he’d do before he left the table: He’d snap the wood bet...
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morejust… quietly praying
On Friday, March 22 nd, 2013Just quietly praying with the hurting… Thank you for quietly folding your prayers in with Him who never ceases to make intercession for us… Related Post: About Steubenville: 25 things Our Sons need to know about Manhood
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moreHow to be a Better Lover
On Friday, February 01 st, 2013I‘m sitting there on the side of a windblown road, waiting for the Farmer to bring me a jug of gas. We’ve knocked on a door. Asked if we could patch through a call to home. Levi picks up. Yes, Levi says, Yes, I think Dad’s out in the barn. I’ll go get him. I’ll send him with gas. But I know there’s no gas in the jug in the shop, nothing in ...
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moreWhat is time for but this?
On Thursday, January 31 st, 2013Wildest Grace! And thousands of you most beautiful people all say “Here I am” and become 1000 gifts and the cycle of grace continues on and on and the five little nieces and all us crazy farm folk, we’re bowled over and undone by this unending deluge of birthday cards for...
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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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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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moreWhen You’re Ready for More than Hardly Surviving Your Life
On Monday, January 07 th, 2013On Saturday night when the snow falls large, like feathers from heaven’s tick, I kneel in the muck of the barn and milk a sow. Rub her udder, warm and swollen right heavy round, nudge at the vessel fullness of her, and wait for her drip. Wait for the sticky whiteness of her dripping sweet, the snow piling without a sound on the roof. When I’m bent ...
