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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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Baking with Bella (Butterfly) and Bear
We’re at it again… baking together. Only Bear wanted in on the action, and Bella had transformed into a butterfly this time, which by the way is what she wants to be when she grows up. Either a butterfly or a dolphin. This post is much more about the children than the process, because, well,…
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Thank You
I can see it in their eyes when they look at you. I can hear it in their voices when they call your name. I can feel it in the energy when they run to greet you when you come home. Whether it’s traipsing through cold fields looking for a Christmas tree or sledding through…
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Getaway… (Part 2)
“…this way of living, this focus on the present, the daily, the tangible, this intense concentration not on the news headlines but on the flowers growing in your own garden, the children growing in your own home, this way of living has the potential to open up the heavens, to yield a glittering handful of…
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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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A Spring of Joy 