Thank you, Kelly…

for saying it so well. You’ve helped me to unplug. A little bit.
Go to Love Well and read this. Laugh. Snort. Realize that everyone has a whole lot of life going on. And yet we keep going on. And on.
Like Kelly, except that I do not have any girls, or a baby, or live without [...]

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Eeeek and aaack…

are the words I’m most often muttering these days. This is the time of summer when I realize how little time is actually left and how many summer goals so gleefully made in June are still woefully undone in July.
How come when you’re 9, summer lasts for sooooo long, but when you’re 39, it’s just [...]

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Soccer camp does…

have an actual end. Whew-ee. And apparently, our weather forces here have conspired to make this the hottest week of the whole soccer camp. My boys’ faces give new shade to sheer redness of exertion. I think it should be a new paint color name, “Soccer Run Red.”
I’m grateful that the coaches are staying on [...]

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Everyone one who sins…

breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. I Jn 3:4
This is the key verse in the series that our pastor is currently preaching on Sunday mornings. You may well imagine how convicting this series is. Our pastor is challenging us to renew our minds with the Word of God about the Word of God, [...]

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Someone’s asking, so I’m…

answering. Here. On the blog.

Do you keep a running list of blog post ideas? I am all over the blog board on this one. I jot down ideas on all sorts of scraps of paper if not near the computer. Or I end up typing a bunch of drafts that languish indefinitely. I have also [...]

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I’m thinking about…

bucket lists right now. I have not seen the movie The Bucket List.
The title issues from things you want to do in your life before you “kick the bucket.” I’d prefer calling it a Daisy List because I like daisies better than buckets, but I was not consulted in this matter.
I am consulting with you [...]

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