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Not Good . . . but Better!
It’s no secret I have a yen for home improvements but with bathrooms and front doors finished, and no plans for the near future, I've been getting a little antsy. So I set my sights on improving the...
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Give Me Some Relief!
So many thoughts. So little time. I have many half-written ideas sailing about in my head, looking for a place to harbor to rest and unload. But in the storm that summer brings, they're finding none...
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Hasta Luego!
It's almost time to say goodbye. Our three weeks with our Spanish student is coming to a close. In three hours we'll be heading to the airport for our final farewells. Right now our kids are enjoying...
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This Wandering Heart
Falling back.Backsliding.Straying.Wandering.It’s our inclination. Our human nature. Our inner compass. We set out to follow God, but we get distracted, complacent or seduced by something else. We...
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Traveling Lessons
It's a statistical fact that most young adults turn their backs on the faith of their childhoods. As a parent, do you worry that your kids' faith is equipped for the journey into adulthood? What steps...
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Slip Sliding Away!
It's been a wild week of weather here. Blue skies filled with puffy clouds have quickly turned black as one thunderstorm after another has come through. After one wicked storm--that even included...
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Garden Primer
Today marked a personal first.I ate a cantaloupe grown in my own garden.Now before you admire my exceptional gardening skills, let me tell you—this has been my worst year gardening. In March I planted...
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29 Ways to Stay Creative
Jon Acuff is an amazing writer/blogger--probably my favorite. This video was on his blog today. It's so clever and well-done that I wanted to share it. My favorite is #17. What's yours?29 WAYS TO STAY...
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You Are Our Hope
Devastation. Terror. Horror.We sit in the ashes.Where is our hope? The father of lies sneers,“Look. I have taken away your security and confidence and innocence.I have taken away your family and...
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Poser? Or One of Us?
I used to be a cyclist. Twelve years ago, after a short but scary battle with cancer, I valued my health as a gift and wanted to do something with it to help others. I joined the local chapter of...
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Going to Visit a Piece of My Heart
Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted. Life's been busy and priorities have been focused elsewhere. One thing I've been doing is learning to design websites in WordPress so my brain cells have...
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There's No Place Like Home
Haiti. Ayiti. Land of high mountains.To most of the world, Haiti is about mountains of rubble. Tent cities. Intense poverty. Violence. Government corruption. And death. It’s about brokenness so broken...
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Undignified
It doesn't matter what era or continent we live on. What age or gender we are. How rich or poor; holy or sinful; educated or ignorant. When our Creator knit us together in our mothers' wombs, He put...
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We Are . . .
Penn State. Words of honor and glory, now associated with shame and disgrace. The scandal that’s rocked the country has hit me and my family hard. My husband is a diehard Penn Stater and I, by...
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Awesome Sauce
This devotion got lost in the Thanksgiving festivities at Internet Cafe Devotions so I'm offering it as a second helping. Admittedly it's not very Christmas-y, but the message is a tasty treat any time...
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Special Delivery
With Christmas shockingly near, maybe you've been cramming with online shopping as I have. The UPS trucks in the neighborhood confirm I'm not the only one! Inspired by our usual UPS driver I have a...
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From Good to Better...to Best
Hello flashing cursor and blank white page. It’s good to be back, my friend. Has absence made your heart grow fonder? Or will you chastise me for neglect? I have excuses at the ready to explain my time...
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A Wretch Like Me
For reasons I've yet to logically explain, God's led me to some places that are way outside my ordinary—like prison. Here I've met people I may have crossed the street to avoid, looked down on in...
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I Love You Not
I have a confession to make.I have hate in my heart. For years I’ve tried to overcome—to be the better person. I’ve tried ignoring. I’ve tried accepting.See … me and this machine … we’re in a battle....
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Gym Time and Jesus
I wrote this for Internet Cafe Devotions last month and thought I'd share here.I love Thursday morning spin class at my gym. It’s intense, sweaty and leaves me feeling exhausted in a great way.A spin...
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Shaken to the Core
This devotion is running today on Internet Cafe Devotions. On January 12, 2010 the foundations of the earth shook as a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti.The already-poorest-country in the Western...
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I'll Have What She's Having
We sat in a circle, talking about repentance and freedom and deliverance and victory. What does it mean? What does it look like? And one question kept coming up, “How? How does this happen … and how...
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Do I Belong?
I wrote this post for Internet Cafe Devotions. Even though it ran last week, I thought I'd share it here.She was in seventh grade and excited to finally be in one of the popular crowds. Then one day...
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God, Truth and Politics
“This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all.” (1John 1:5)A few days ago it was the top story on usatoday.com. “Pregnancy from...
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Welcome Home
I just can’t to stay away. Somewhere in the brokenness and filth and poverty and overwhelming needs of Haiti, my spirit connects in ways that God says, “Welcome home.”So “home” I went two weeks ago. To...
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