Two Roads Diverged

Back when Steve and I were both healthy, I occasionally thought about what it might be like if one of us got sick (**see footnote below). I imagined many of the challenges that might go along with a terminal diagnosis and I was right about some of it  – but […]

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Living on a Prayer

  I could tell you all the ways this prayer hit my heart when I first read it. I could list all the tender places it touched and the bold challenges it issued to my sagging spirit. I could explain that I’m certain it was supernaturally nudged into my path today…in […]

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How to be a Hero in a World Made for War

    Today, the headlines I read are soaked in sorrow.   A plane shot out of the sky, stopping the heartbeats of 298 souls. A four-year-old boy tossed from a  car to his death. New death toll from the latest action in Gaza: +500. A famous couple in the middle of a divorce, […]

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Be Careful What You Pray For

    Years ago, the book Prayer of Jabez took the world by storm. It was built on an obscure scripture from I Chronicles – a beautiful prayer spoken to the heavens by a man with a strange name and a difficult life. The book got people praying again and one line […]

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For Those Who Work The Night Shift

  Yesterday, Steve and I had a romantic date to St. Charles emergency room. Believe it or not, it’s the first time he’s ever been in one.  Like most of our ALS misadventures so far, this one ended better than it started and we’re glad for that.  Our kids are […]

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