Category: The Library
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Flatlining
“I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing…
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Driving Lessons
It was a sunny day last week when I had a 20-25 minute drive to an appointment, so I picked a song on my iPhone at the traffic light right before I hit the interstate. I started iPod genius because, well, iPod genius is just genius. Then something went crazy with the iPod, and it…
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Of Sparkle and Heaven and Swimming Pools
Just a brief update and a truly heart-felt thank you to those of you who prayed for my Bella-Girl. She had only one other episode on Thursday night, but it was short-lived and much less terrifying. Her fever has stayed high until today and she is happy and skipping and bouncing through her days. I…
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Impossible Standard
Tears began to fall as I dropped my hands in a mixture of sadness and frustration and blurted, “What is it I’m not teaching him?” My mother was in the room and smiled and gently. “Baby,” she said softly, “Don’t make this about you.” Her tender words pierced through my self-focus and convicted my heart–a…
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Believing: Darkness Has Been Overcome
She skipped down the stairs, and I watched her as she sang to herself the whole way to our van. Her red curls blew in the wind, mingling with the same colored fur of her Beary Bear clutched in her embrace. She looked up and grinned and kept singing, and my eyes filled. She is…
A Spring of Joy 