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An Email

A dear friend sent me this email today. She knows me well. She knows the beating that 2009 gave us. She cares No matter how badly last year treated you, just walk tall with your head held high. This is a brand new year, baby! Yeah, it may have just been a forward but it was a funny one...

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Not a Slacker

I bet you think I’ve been sitting on the couch – wrapped in a warm blanket with a nice, big cup of hot, black coffee near me – avoiding this blog. Well you’re close. I usually sit in what I lovingly refer to as my duck chair. It’s a chair with ottoman that are covered in a mallard-themed material. Thus its name. You probably thought it was in the shape of a duck. You really...

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Has it been a month already?

No, as a matter of fact it has not been a month. I think that’s something I can be proud of, don’t you? I must be getting in the swing of things already. It’s hard for me to believe that just a couple of years ago making sure I had something to post daily meant everything to me. I remember spending hours and hours each evening typing away. God forbid a post, if even just a meme,...

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Something to Say

Call it an urge or maybe a feeling that it’s time but if I can recall how this whole wordpress bloggy thingy works then I am coming back. God has done so many amazing things in me and my family in the last year that I don’t think I can keep silent anymore. After moving into this house and being led to join a wonderful Spirit-led church family, God has not stopped teaching, stretching and...

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So write something then would ya

I have restarted this sentence no less than five times. I want to write here. I want to talk about the amazing things that God is finally opening my eyes of understanding to and yet, where do I even begin? He has shown me so much truth over the last few months. I’ve talked for endless hours on the phone with my sister and other dear friends (who know well how much I dislike the phone) but it seems so...

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On Finding a Church Home

Six weeks, six Sunday mornings we walked into the large, beautiful church building hoping that someone other than just the greeter would smile, say hello or just make us feel welcome in some small way. I had researched the churches in the area on the web. We had first narrowed down the ones we would visit to the three that struck a cord with us in some way. When push came to shove though there was only one...

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Yet even this is not truly my home

We’ve moved into our own home. After hoping, praying, and waiting for eleven years, we own a home again. Those are sweet words to say and for those who’ve known us through the waiting process, I hope they are sweet words to hear too. Eleven years ago this past summer we lost a beautiful home in Temecula, California. The housing market had slumped and we weren’t the only people...

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Just some pics

In Wisconsin, while there were many, many deer, they usually kept hidden. On several occasions, I’d see them far off in the distance in a farmer’s field while driving. They stayed far enough away from human activity that seeing them was exciting. Hitting them with the car late at night on a cold, icy road was exciting too. Not that I’d actually know. They are shy in Wisconsin and fast...

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The Day After Nothing

Today is Saturday and according to our Realtor’s original plan we were supposed to close on the house yesterday. The thing is, we still have not been told of an appointment time, worse, we have no firm commitment for even a particular date of closing. Someone has to have dropped the ball and now I’m just praying we will close on the house next week. Drats! Drats! Drats!! I so wanted the extra...

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Patient Hope

I’m not sure if I ever told you this but if so you’re just going to have to hear it again. My kids are THE best. God was so good to Julian and me when He chose these three to be ours. For the last two months we’ve been staying with friends while we attempted to make the state of Texas our new home. Our kids are intimately acquainted with all that a cross-country move entails. They know...