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John 5:1-9 How long must you wait by the water’s edge for the angel to dip her fickle toe and stir the surface of the world? And what if even after days, months of waiting, watching, you sense the air’s movement, see the water shimmer with circle after concentric...
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(photo credit) Our giant black chicken stood outside the open kitchen window clucking with vigor yesterday afternoon. Despite the high heat and humidity, she marched back and forth in the green grass busily squawking with an air of self-importance, a clear sign...
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(My kids don’t start school for two more weeks, but many in our area start tomorrow. I’m praying for and thinking of all those kids and Mamas tonight and wanted to re-share this post from fall 2015.) All four kids took turns rummaging, elbow deep, in...
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I loaded three cartons of eggs and three ice blocks into our straight-out-of-the-eighties rolling cooler this morning. We inherited the cooler from a friend because she didn’t need it anymore and we didn’t want to spend $20 on a cooler for eggs that might not...
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I returned home from the God’s Whisper Writing Retreat in Virginia last Sunday, driving my husband’s rattly old pickup truck through four hours of heat and humidity. The truck lacks AC and I swear it was hotter inside the cab than out. By the...
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If you’re lucky enough to be listening, a word may come in the night while you wrestle with tangled sheets and the window unit AC throbs. When you’re wide awake past your bedtime, you might remember a line you used to know by...
