Tag: faith
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Faithfully
“It’s been a long year, it almost took me down, I swear…” It has been around a year since I made a blog post. I never intended to go that long between posts, but…life. We’ve been busy doing the good things, the hard things, the everyday things. That line from the Toby Mac song “Faithfully”…
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God of Everything
One of my favorite t-shirts has a graphic on it that says “The God of the Mountains is the God of the Valleys”, which is a line from a worship song called “Graves into Gardens”. (Shout out to the Goods and Better Store, which is where I got the shirt. They are a great company…
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How do you measure a year?
Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes. Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear. Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee (or diet Dr. Pepper) In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In five hundred twenty-five thousand,…
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Thanxiety
I think I have invented a couple new words! Well, not really new words but rather a combination of already-existing words. I’ll tell you what they are in just a paragraph or two, but first I want to let you know how this came about. Recently, in a series of teaching on Philippians at church,…
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In the Details
The past couple weeks have been a little rough. Nothing extraordinarily big has happened, but several things have made us grit our teeth and take more than a few deep breaths. Our daughter was in a car accident that totaled her car and caused her to break her hand. Our little boys have been in…
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Fog
We just got done spending a weekend in Galesburg (our hometown) visiting with family and spending some time with my mom. We’re on the road heading home now and it is very foggy. It’s the kind of fog that makes it hard to see the road signs, or even the road, at times. Not too…
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Tough Decisions
As I mentioned in my last post, 1993 was a life-changing year, and it mostly changed for the worse. I had begun having panic attacks and severe anxiety. I felt disconnected and depressed. And I was pregnant with my second child. My world was shrinking with what I later learned was agoraphobia. I was physically…
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Thankful
Thanksgiving is this week, and gratitude has been on my mind a lot. My mother-in-law was amazing at sending thank you notes. Honestly, it seemed as if she pre-wrote them at Christmas time and just filled in the necessary blanks so she could mail them on her way home from Christmas dinner! If she were…
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God is in This Story
I remember the first time I realized God is real. I’m not sure how old I was – probably around 8 or 9 – but I remember it was a beautiful day and I was playing on the sidewalk in front of my house. I looked up to the blue sky as I breathed in…
God is in This Story 