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Saying “Good-Bye”
We don’t know the reason God allows evil and suffering to continue, or why it is so random, but now at least we know what the reason isn’t—what it can’t be. It can’t be that he doesn’t love us! It can’t be that he doesn’t care. He is so committed to our ultimate happiness that…
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Messy Intersections and Helping Hands
It was on the way home from a picnic–I was in the van with the children, and we were stopped at a traffic intersection on a slight incline. The pick-up in front of me was full of boards (full meaning the entire back up to the bed cover), and the tailgate was down because that…
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I’m Afraid I’ve Been Remiss
Life’s whirlwind is swirling around me viciously, and I am unable to catch my breath or my thoughts or my words, and then I sit with a friend at church and she asks about my bone scan, and I realize… I put it on Facebook, but I never put it here. The bone scan was…
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What it was All About
It wasn’t anything spectacular. In fact, in some people’s eyes, it might have seemed a waste of a night together. The kids were tucked in bed, and Bri and I curled up on the couch with Rocky Road Ice Cream and coffee from the French Press and we turned on the Emmy Awards. It was…
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I Think I Need a Bigger Box
Brian knows my favorite flower is the rose. The red rose. I have saved every single petal from every single rose he’s ever given me since our engagement (two boxes full so far). I am sentimental like that. The children are fascinated by this, and they love to pull off the petals and spread them…