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And summer begins…
It has been here a week, and I chant our summer mantra… 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…
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Wrestling Matches
This morning I had a wrestling match with God. It started when she crept into my bed in the night and her body burned. Perhaps she is overheated, I thought, feeling the baking heat of our upstairs. She slept, but her body only warmed more, and she turned into me at 3:00 a.m. “Mommy, my…
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Pushing
She was always the one to give me just the push I needed! “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her…
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Two Words
There was a crash as she fell, and I looked up from my spot on the ground. There sat Bella in the middle of our basketball court, arms and legs tangled all around her brother’s “big scooter”. “Are you okay?” I called to her, poised to run to her aid if she needed me. She…
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A Spring of Joy 