Category: The Library
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The One Place in All the World
One year ago, this became ours. Our gift from God. One year ago I stood at my kitchen window, sipping steaming coffee and soaking in gratefulness. This morning I stood at my kitchen window, sipping steaming coffee and soaking in gratefulness. One year. There are still boxes to be unpacked. There are empty walls and…
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Not Perfect, But Perfect
“People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it” (~Edith Schaeffer) Our beach trip. I described it as sublime in my last post. Glorious. Wonderful. Sublime. Perfection. Which it was. But in reality, it wasn’t perfect. The trip down…
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Value and Reward
Often I hear my tone echoing throughout the van or the house as the children quiet under my scolding, and I sigh heavily, conviction swirling through my heart and mind. This parenting thing is hard, and my expectations for my children and my home are often unrealistic. Perspective. The Lord has changed mine on many…
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Glittering Days
The only option as I see it, is this delicate weaving of action and celebration, of intention and expectation. Let’s act, read, protest, protect, picket, learn, advocate for, fight against, but let’s be careful that in the midst of all that accomplishing and organizing, we don’t bulldoze over a world that’s teeming with beauty and…
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Getaway…
“Now there is a good family car.” Brian mused as an old, 6 passenger convertible breezed by us. The five of us were sitting outside licking peanut butter oreo ice cream cones as fast as we could, but it was a losing battle as I wiped drips off Bella’s arms. “I had a old friend…
A Spring of Joy 