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All Saints Day always scared me as a child. The sound of each bell tolling as names were solemnly read aloud. Death was scarier then, in the fire and brimstone of 1980s end-of-the-world preaching about the wide path that leads to destruction and billboards that asked me where I would go if I died tonight.…
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I failed a class in college. Political Science 101. I love all things politics so you’d think I would have earned an A++. But that class started at 8am, in a building at the top of a very large hill, during the very cold winter. I skipped it. A lot. That professor taught me two…
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3: Number of Father’s Days without our Dads. 11: Number of Father’s Days Audrey had with her Dad. 15: Number of years my bonus Dad, my father in law, lived with us. 17: Number of Father’s Days Ella had with her Dad. 18: The day of June that my Papa passed from this life to…
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Father, I thank you for today and I ask you to help me today. Help me to do your will in all things, act like your child, and be a good citizen and representative of your kingdom. Help me to stay on your straight and narrow path, and not stray into sin traps and mud…
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Heads or tails? So much of what we are reading about and dealing with today are two different perspectives on the same situation. Two different visuals of the same thing. When you pick up a penny and flip it, you may get heads or you may get tails – but you still have the same…
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My thoughts right now are a little all over the place – kind of like the world we currently live in, I guess. What is the appropriate Christian response to all that is happening, and what is the acceptable human response? What would an angry Old Testament God do and what would a forgiving New…
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I cannot stop thinking about my favorite Christmas present. My girls reached out to a number of special women in my life who all wrote letters to me. Women I am ridiculously immensely proud of, and thankful to have in my life. The messages are so moving I haven’t even been able to read them…
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December is the month of anticipation. About Christmas and trees and presents. About taking time to recharge. About the birth of Jesus. About the coming new year. My anticipation has been different this season. Is that something that changes for all of us as we get older? I’m not *not* looking forward to the holidays,…
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Only two months remaining in the year of purpose. At the beginning of this year, I was a little worried to focus on a word. While I hoped that I might have some sort of epiphany about my place on the planet, I also wondered if I should set careful expectations given how the year…
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I needed a little summer. Sleeping in later because no one has to be at school. Noses with freckles. BLTs with fresh tomatoes and dripping Miracle Whip. Except I hate the hot. I love all places with AC and fans and iced green tea. Middle aged women need the chill of fall evenings 24/7, every…
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