Today I honor my husband. One year ago today his decision changed everything. As magnificent head of our home and pillar of strength, he pulled in. He allowed it to happen. He allowed God to invade deeper truths. We took time. Weeks and weeks of study and prayer and growth. Sometimes painful and always holy.
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Something like six months ago I had a BUNIONECTOMY. It’s hard to decide which word is more ugly: bunion, or its –ectomy. The kind and slightly-too-young surgeon used standard issue hardware to hold my metatarsal in its new place; redesigned to be straighter and more natural. Neat. Power tools. (This makes my husband very happy and of the mind that…
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Every day we get another chance to adjust our settings; turn the dials of our vision, our focus, our intention, our daily starting point. When we are overly focused (read: obsessed) on the person-to-person interactions, we are choosing to live horizontally. This often results in serious side-effects: frustrations, worries, expectations and, on good days certainly, even delightful joy and thrilling…
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Is your happiness every day dependent on the actions reactions, expectations or desires of other people? … at all? Quit it! Here’s a PEP TALK for Monday: Choose to Be Grateful. Offer gratitude for the basics that we all have and sometimes forget, but also offer gratitude for the tough things that make us stronger. This is…
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PLANS WELL MADE It’s somewhere between 4 and 5am and we’re camping. Actually we’re staging ourselves for an early arrival to the Wheatland Music festival that starts tomorrow and we’re on Take #9 of trying to beat the morning queue. We rented the same reliable 35’ trailer we’ve used for a few years (which we now consider ours) and we…
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She moved the pillow to the center of the bed: submission to the truth. He is with Jesus and her life is changed. How can she be happy that he’s gone? How can we celebrate the joy of heaven when we have such guttural pain in our body? It’s the most ultimate choice that we must work through in our…