A Recipe for Fun

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Are you ready to make some memories on Memorial Day weekend? Does opening your home and serving friends and family seem overwhelming? Too burdensome? Just not worth the effort? May I encourage you to change your mindset? Holidays are a natural time to build relationships and stockpile sweet memories. Opening our homes doesn’t have to…

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Zig Zagging Part 3

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Can I be honest with you? Sometimes, I just think too small. I serve this awe-inspiring, tremendous, mountain-moving God and yet, I sweat the small stuff. I worry about the miniscule. I doubt in the dark what I know to be true in the light. When you boil it all down, that’s really why the…

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Zig Zagging Part 2

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Have you zig zagged recently? I know that I sure have! The last two weeks were spent buying a wedding dress and planning wedding decorations, then walking through pre-op procedures and the subsequent cancer surgery with the same child…missing flights, changing travel plans, and sleeping in five different hotel beds in twelve nights. Life has…

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Zig Zagging Part 1

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Don’t you wish your life were always a straight path? When you make plans, set goals, prepare schedules… Don’t you wish that your days would just cooperate?  I know I do! The truth is this: When my day goes according to my plans I can be so sweet. My mood, my mouth, and my actions…

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Grace and the 2nd Generation

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My last blog post hit a nerve… Without meaning to, I tore the Band-Aid off of the relational wounds so many of us are dealing with on a daily basis. I heard from friends and readers that were separated from family by harsh words, unforgiving actions, and irreconcilable attitudes. It broke my heart. It broke…

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Chocolate Bunnies and the Cross

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Growing up in a non-religious home, Easter was one of the two times my family always attended church. Like clockwork, Easter Sunday found us sitting in an unfamiliar church pew, singing unfamiliar hymns, and behaving as though the unfamiliar church service was our family norm. As a child I was nervous and excited all at…

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How To Turn One Month Into Three…

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Wow! December 31, 2013 seems like such a long time ago… That’s when I excused myself for a short (one month) break from blog writing. It’s amazing how quickly one month can become two, then three, then three plus months!   So much has happened in our family in the last three months. Life in…

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It’s A “Selfie” Society

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My writing “sabbatical” is officially over. It’s been a great month of bonding with our new granddaugher and preparing for yet another move. However, it’s definitely time to get back to work. Before I begin a new series though, let me share a blog by my daughter Emma. As a millenial herself, she has some…

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The Blog That Wouldn’t Wait Until February!

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  Any of you who follow the writings of Ann Voskamp know that each January she sets out a yearlong challenge. That challenge is to find one word that succinctly describes the spiritual growth you hope to accomplish in the coming year. One word. One.single.solitary.lonely.word. Wow! I don’t know about you, but one word seems…

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A New Year’s Eve Heart to Heart

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How do we make it from one year to the next? When circumstances seem overwhelming and we’re tempted to fear, how do we keep on going? How do we keep on filling our family’s daily needs, meeting our friends’ expectations, living up to our obligations? It’s been a year since we relocated to North Carolina……

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