What Happens on Vacation

I haven’t written much lately, which is sort of like not eating for me. Writing is my inhale/exhale. It’s my therapy, my sanity, my way of tunneling through the weights of life that inevitably pile up and block the light. I don’t know why I haven’t been writing, really. Likely […]

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Finger Painting for Grownups

I’ve been studying a message on being wholehearted and it has me thinking about my own core values and how wholeheartedly I live them. Here’s my problem, though:   I long to see the world; and I long for the comforts of home. I long for greater levels of organization […]

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Beautiful, Terrible Friday

      I don’t know what to do today.  I mean, it feels like any other day.  The sun is shining, facebook is alive with noise and TGIF’s and You Will Not Believe What This Kitten Did Next.   It’s like every other Friday.   Except it’s not.   […]

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The High Cost of Cheap Words

    I recently ran into this post, written by my friend, Kristen Lunceford, on the occasion of her darling daughter’s 3rd birthday.  It is beautiful and elegant and powerful.  It’s also from three years ago, which is longer than I’ve been following Kristen, so had she not retrieved it […]

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Seven: Change Your Life in One Easy List

    Well, shoot.  The great thing about blogging my way through Seven is that it’s kept me motivated and accountable.  The bad thing is that I’ve been stuck – absolutely, unquestionably stuck – in two little chapters in Isaiah.  Which has been life-changing for me as a human, but […]

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