Category: The Library
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Consider the Lilies…
My wedding was full of lilies: stargazers and calla lilies. I carried them in my bouquet. They surrounded Brian and me at the altar. Resplendent glory wrapped around us as we bowed our bodies and knelt before God and a couple hundred witnesses. Brian prayed quietly for us and our marriage while Bri’s sister sang…
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Dying
Being a wife and a stay-at-home-mom is what I want to be. It’s all I ever wanted to be, and what I believe to be the most important calling God has for my life. God chose to give that gift to me… to us. Bri and I have made many sacrifices so I could stay…
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Small Glimpses and Great Hallelujahs!
Bella-girl knocks secret codes to me through her wall. Our beds touch the same wall, and last night as she climbed in bed, she knocked her “I love you” to me, and I knocked back. We knocked until she fell asleep, and every now and then I heard a stifled giggle echo down the hallway…
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Perfect Praise
“Remember, it requires eleven tons of pressure on a piano’s strings for it to be tuned. And God will tune you to perfect harmony with heaven’s theme if you will withstand the strain. ‘Things that hurt and things that mar Shape the man for perfect praise…’” (~from Streams in the Desert by L. B. Cowman…
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Held
The wise hand opens slowly To lilies of the valley and tomorrow This is what it means to be held How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life And you survive This is what it is to be loved and to know That the promise was that when everything fell We’d be…
A Spring of Joy 