“Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.” ~TS Eliot I don’t regularly follow the traditions of the church calendar, so Ash Wednesday snuck in on the coat tails of the flu and strep throat as they bullied their way through my little people. Housebound with kids capable of doing nothing but watching tv and…
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On skipping parties for pre-marital counseling
The show Friends premiered the year I got engaged. I slipped on a diamond ring at the end of my freshman year in college. I was still one year away from embracing my second decade–a year away from a birthday with a two in front of it. I had no business thinking about marriage at that point in my life,…
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Burdens We’re not Called to Carry
I would love to be one of these people who hop out of bed with a bluebird on their shoulder. Instead, I get out of bed, and I feel the throbbing of teeth clenched tight throughout the night. My jaw aches every morning. I have the tell-tale signs of a woman who just might grind her teeth to little nubs…
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Belonging Begins in Our Own Backyard
He sat on the kitchen counter with a bowl of ice cream and a cell phone between us. He promised it was worth my time to listen, “I’m telling you, babe, it’s exactly what you’re experiencing.” He shoved a spoonful of ice cream in his mouth, grinned, and pressed play on his phone. Malcolm Gladwell’s voice washed over me in…
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Small living
“Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.”~Luke 12:6-8 I hung three bird feeders from our trees this weekend. I looked for low-lying branches where I might get a good glimpse…
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