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Mustard Seeds and Mountains
One Saturday for pizza and movie night, we watched “Fellowship of the Ring” yelling “Nerd!” laughingly at each other whenever one of us would quote the movie before the quote actually came. At one point, during a hard pass, Saruman’s voiceover speaks as the fellowship climbs, “If the mountain defeats you, will you risk more…
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Goodness is Chasing
One of my favorite parts of the Gideon story in the Bible is when God shows him the Midianite camp. With only an army of 300 men, God told Gideon to go down against the Midianites. Then he said, “But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your…
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Holding an Unsteady Glass
“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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Broken Shards
We are will hopefully soon be driving home over the mountains and valleys of life. Our 6 am wake-up call was rough. Arriving at UVA they immediately ushered me back for my MRI. She tried using my port for contrast dye but failed, twice. She and I were in tears by the time she was…
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Trusting in the Wilderness
Driving over to UVA in this afternoon for an MRI and pre-op appointments… I look around me, and it is breathtakingly beautiful these mountains and valleys, but I feel like I am wandering in the wilderness. My heart aches with deep anxiety, and yet I desire to honor my Jesus with how I walk through…
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A Spring of Joy 