Meet Shannon…
Hello! My name is Shannon and I’m happy you stopped by! Twenty years ago I left my family and “city-life” in the South to come to a small town in the midwest with my husband. Three kids and a couple of dogs later I find my life full to the brim… and often overflowing onto my running shoes! I spend my time trying to remember which child to pick up when, gulping coffee, eating icing and working hard to find and follow the path that God has set out before me.
Give Him to Me
A lifetime ago…or maybe just a childhood ago….I stood over an isolate in the NICU staring at a wrinkly smushed little creature with a purplish bruised head. He was hooked up to wires and tubes as the machines around him hummed and beeped and I put my carefully washed...
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A Promise
About seven years ago I made a promise to myself. Every year, on the anniversary of the Joplin tornado, I would read THIS POST I had written about what my family had experienced that Sunday afternoon. I would read it and remember. I would remember what God did for us....
read moreA Wrestling Match
You know how sometimes God puts a book in your hands that PERFECTLY speaks to you and the place you're living in at that exact moment? Yeah. That. I've been reading this book called Daring to Hope by Katie Davis Majors that's doing just that for me. In it, the author...
read morePedal 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...
read moreOne Should Hope So
Hope. It is the best of feelings, It is the worst of feelings. (And yes, I think 'ol Charles Dickens would totally agree.) Hope can be the only light to get you through an incredibly dark situation. It can be the one thing that keeps you hanging onto a lifeline in...
read moreWe’ll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet…
Just a few more days. Just a few more days and the year we waited for with such feverish anticipation at this time last year...will be over. Soon we will say good-bye to our 365-day-chance of new beginning, second chances and fresh starts and replace it with hopes of...
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