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Hope Springs: An Easter Story
She’d been gone one month. As the greenhouse plastic flapped in the autumn wind, the boys and I filled five white paper bags to the top with tulip bulbs. We carefully studied the placards posted over...
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When God Doesn’t Change…But You Do {and a book giveaway}
A few years ago I stumbled on a blog called An Inch of Gray and was instantly smitten with the writing and the writer. Anna See, as she called herself then, was laugh-out-loud funny one moment,...
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Be Gentle Always
I stopped short in the driveway and stood staring. It all looked so normal, so everyday — the potted impatiens she’d planted in front of the garage, the Windexed windows, the kitchen light glowing...
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Practicing the Ministry of Presence
Hi friends – I’m still on a blogging break, but I wanted to share my monthly column I wrote for the Journal Star with you. Thanks for your patience and grace as I take a little breather from (most of)...
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When You’re Not Feeling Very Adventy
I’ll be honest: I’m not feeling very Adventy this Advent. I don’t have that sense of anticipation, the expectation that is often present in the weeks leading up to Christmas. I’m just…here. Slogging....
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Why We Need to Feel Our Grief
“You’re going to feel some pressure,” the doctor murmured as he inserted the needle into my elbow. Turns out “some pressure” was the euphemism of the century. What I actually felt during the...
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Time Wants to Show You a Different Country
I walked with my oldest son Noah on the prairie Sunday night as emerald dragonflies swooped over a landscape abloom in a riot of wildflowers. The air sung, a symphony of trilling insects and rasping...
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Hope Springs: An Easter Story
She’d been gone one month. As the greenhouse plastic flapped in the autumn wind, the boys and I filled five white paper bags to the top with tulip bulbs. We carefully studied the placards posted over...
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When God Doesn’t Change…But You Do {and a book giveaway}
A few years ago I stumbled on a blog called An Inch of Gray and was instantly smitten with the writing and the writer. Anna See, as she called herself then, was laugh-out-loud funny one moment,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Be Gentle Always
I stopped short in the driveway and stood staring. It all looked so normal, so everyday — the potted impatiens she’d planted in front of the garage, the Windexed windows, the kitchen light glowing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Practicing the Ministry of Presence
Hi friends – I’m still on a blogging break, but I wanted to share my monthly column I wrote for the Journal Star with you. Thanks for your patience and grace as I take a little breather from (most of)...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When You’re Not Feeling Very Adventy
I’ll be honest: I’m not feeling very Adventy this Advent. I don’t have that sense of anticipation, the expectation that is often present in the weeks leading up to Christmas. I’m just…here. Slogging....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why We Need to Feel Our Grief
“You’re going to feel some pressure,” the doctor murmured as he inserted the needle into my elbow. Turns out “some pressure” was the euphemism of the century. What I actually felt during the...
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