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Pedal Therapy
I may be in the (gulp) fifth decade of my life...but I'm still learning some stuff. For instance--even though I seem to be an entirely different person from whom I was 35 years ago....I still have SOME of the same tastes. Perfect example: creme horns. They are still...
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Never Hopeless
Sunday morning I found myself in church at a homeless mission in Ft. Worth. I was sitting in the pew and the stench was pungent. I realized it was me. I had been there for 2 days without a shower. I looked around me and wondered at the grace of God. How easily I could...
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Out of Africa
(This post was written a few weeks ago....) Exactly one week ago I was somewhere over remote Northeast Canada on my way to Dallas. I was so ready to be home… and so exhausted. A week later, and 100 years older, I realize that I had no idea what the word exhausted...
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I Have to Say…
We can choose not to live in fear, but to live responsibly and smartly.
read more“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
-Mother Teresa
Sibling Rivalry
Isn't funny how you can say anything you want about your sibling, but the minute anyone else does, you want to lay them out FLAT. It amazes me that the people that have the biggest impact on you growing up are choices that you...
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Maybe It’s Time For The Next Best Thing
"God will protect you with his pinions; you’ll find refuge under his wings. His faithfulness is a protective shield." Psalm 91:4 The way God created everything is astounding. Each creature is fascinating and...
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Giving Grace Even When You Are Really Mad
Is it crazy how you can start off the day ready to tackle the world, and then BAM, it goes to pot. I had the most wonderful prayer time and enjoyed studying God's word today, but you wouldn't know it. You wouldn't know it at all. We got two kittens because one isn't...
read moreCarrying My Canoe
We love spending time at our favorite lake in the summer. I love watching the water in all its moods - but when it's calm and still like glass, nothing beats taking the canoe and spending some peaceful moments paddling along the shore. My son even took this...
read moreEverything Doesn’t Have to Be “Fixed”
I am what I'd call a recovering perfectionist. Sometimes I fall off the wagon, but in general I am so much better than I used to be! I used to see things very neatly - black or white, right or wrong - and I was pretty stingy with grace. But years of good times,...
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#One Word: What’s Yours?
New Year's Resolutions are so UGH. Mine are always broken or forgotten or just plain unrealistic and tossed before January is halfway through. But I do like having goals, and vision, and something to work toward. Something that guides my actions around family, my...
read moreHave Yourself a Merry Little Something…
This holiday season I'm finding myself bouncing wildly between two states of mind: 1. We are going to have a flipping AMAZING traditional Christmas if it flipping kills us! AND2. Nothing is going to be the same as it's always been, so why bother trying? One day I'm...
read moreMixed Bag….
Kid #3 starts school in the morning. As in...she's leaving the house and going to another building for eight hours! Oh is she ever excited to start 8th grade...truly! She's been organizing and labeling (and re-labeling and re-organizing) school and locker supplies for...
read moreKeeping it Together (But Still 6 Feet Apart)….
If I were to try and think up the perfect beginning scene for a truly epic horror movie, there would be a group of people who have been thrown into the ocean--through no fault of their own--and they are hanging onto something while they know, beyond a shadow of a...
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