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Following my own advice: Laying down “31 Days of Doing What I Say” before it...
Yesterday I posted that I’d be diving this month into what I say vs. how I live, what I believe vs. how I move through the world. I intended to take an un-bossy look at personal integrity for the next...
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Five Minute Friday: Care
It happens so often. I feel excited and all revved up to write on Friday. The word is released in Thursday’s late hours, and I see it. Nothing. I trace back over my week, all the memories of faces and...
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To Live Like A Child Plus A Giveaway of “Playdates with God” by Laura Boggess
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Lessons on courage from a kindergarten writer
It’s September, and I am weaving through the classroom, sidling up beside kids one at a time. Lala is my third child enjoying kindergarten with Ms. Foster, and so for the third school year, I have the...
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Five Minute Friday: Still
For days frigid winds whip through trees, blowing leaves into whirling cyclones, and we head for cover, blankets, hot cider, snuggles. This morning, a hush covers our neighborhood. All is calm. I long...
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For When You’re Overwhelmed…On Wise Men and Following the Light (A Guest Post...
Hello, dear friends. I posted this short piece yesterday, but was having some technical problems on the blog, so many subscribers didn’t see it. This is for you today — if you’re wandering, feeling...
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God Light, Thoughts on Last Year’s One Word (Seek) and My Guiding Word for 2015
While Michael built a bonfire, and the girls constructed a playground from driftwood, I took a brief walk down the beach, through packed sand, over piles of strewn logs and past tide pools. It was a...
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Simple thoughts on fearlessness
I’m alive! And I’ve missed you so much, friends. For more than three years, this place has been a sacred one for me, where we listen and respond and share and hear “me too” in the comments and pay...
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Five Minute Friday: Gather
i am scattered bits, disconnected, harried, shaken and God bids walk, listen birds call and caw and pound, woodpecker makes morse on a hollowing limb, crow open beak screams from a high branch, lark...
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When grace is a hammock
Currently our thermostat reads 84 degrees. It could be worse. Outside, the temperature has risen to 102 — more than a bit jarring to our Northwest sensibilities. Lala and a friend play store...
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