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Tomorrow, they turn two and two weeks later my big boy will head off to kindergarten. We walked last night through the spritzing rain and I held his hand with the always dry, cracking skin while my husband pushed the big wide stroller brimming...
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The realtor’s car flew along green fields and over rolling hills. Seated in the back seat, a small and simple prayer formed in my mind. Looking up and out the wide, flat glass of the windshield, I glimpsed a cherry-red Cardinal...
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I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. To them I was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek, and I bent down to feed them. Hosea 11:3-4 * * * I stand in the doorway of my older son’s...
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“Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.” Brene Brown Sometime in the land before time, by which I mean the time before I was, my older brother woke in the middle of the night to the low rolling growl of a...
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Early in our marriage it became clear that too many one-on-one game nights would ruin us, since I’m terribly competitive and an incredibly poor sport. Being poor newlyweds, we didn’t own a TV and couldn’t afford to go to the...
