May 14 2013
In July 2009, I had the incredible blessing of meeting the young lady who would become the daughter of my heart the following April. The photo above captures the instant love that happened between future big sister and her baby brother. Annie was getting ready to turn fourteen and Michael was just fourteen months old. …
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May 04 2013
It is so hard to believe that May is already here. This past week, we had weather in the 80s and the boys even snuck out the sprinkler and made a mud slide in our backyard. The next day the temperatures dropped to the 40s. Tonight it is in the 30s with very, cold rain …
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Apr 28 2013
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. Romans 12:2 NLT I love how the NLT puts this verse…conforming means to …
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Apr 27 2013
What is our calling? Are we called to do something for God? Many times we can get frustrated and exhaust ourselves trying to figure out the answer to that question…what are called to be? I was in a Bible Study a few weeks back and I heard the heart ache in a woman who was …
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Apr 24 2013
Parenting isn’t easy. Parenting after living through a horrific accident and in a few moments of time becoming a widowed mother is even harder than I imagined some days. There are days when I struggle…when I struggle a lot. There are days that are filled with beautiful times. But over the past several weeks, our …
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Apr 21 2013
Me Easter Sunday 1969 when I was two years old. This past week has been pretty much like a roller coaster of parenting and pretty intense. So after reflecting about what to write about for tonight’s blog post, I decided to do something different. After all, in the past several months there have been …
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Apr 19 2013
Healing takes time. It takes patience. The process can be painful and feel like it is taking forever. I am discovering that it is in the midst of the heart wrenching pain and total weakness that God can help us to surrender to Him in ways we didn’t even realize we need to and that …
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