Three months ago one of my college roommates (and one of my dearest friends) had a beautiful baby girl named Victoria. It was fun to be pregnant at the same time as she was. She ran a marathon in her second or third trimester. She swam in the water. In Maine. In a wetsuit. And [...]
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Hello, moon. It is three am and you woke me up. I looked out the window at the silver blue light cascading and spilling out all over the snow covered hills and flowing into every nook and cranny of the valley and I thank Him for the gift. She even left a few stars out [...]
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Remember when I wrote that I prayed for some gifts from Heavenly Father for Christmas? Well, they didn’t come on Christmas Day. I wasn’t really expecting them to. When I talked to my daughter about my experience with Heavenly Father, she informed me that they would all probably arrive before April 6th, as that is [...]
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I want to write a love letter. I’ve never really wanted to write one before–not really. I’ve always been massively intimidated by that art form, as I feel it comes far too close to the realm of poetry and while my heart of hearts aspires to be poetic, I have never felt equal to the [...]
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I did not expect to really be using my one word for the year so soon. A week ago, I was feeling a little sick–my ear hurt. It suddenly turned into what looked like a stroke. And I sounded like Frankenstein. I have no recollection of 18 hours of my life at that time. And [...]
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I am glad I don’t have a television, because there is something that newspeople do not seem to understand about the sacred. Especially the sacredness of grief. From what I have heard regarding the media’s coverage of this tragedy, it can best be described as “frenzied.” I think we should all just not watch it. [...]
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August and September were interesting. There were so many things going on–our little bear was getting ready to undergo testing for a brain tumor, our baby boy was just barely getting used to mortality, and we were all getting moved in to the new ranch. And I was really praying a lot. Mostly for the [...]
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One of my heroes is Dr. Albert Schweitzer. He could be stubborn, disagreeable, and moody. He made mistakes. He was very human. He was also extraordinary. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for his philosophy. He had been struggling with the dilemma of how human beings could be moral. He had come [...]
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Joy’s birthday is on October 2nd. And when summer has all but slipped away, and I am hanging on to the last petals from the last flowers, I seem to hang on a little tighter now. Ever since the end of that perfect last summer we had with her, I have tended to believe that [...]
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Summer has come and gone, and I have been sitting in a rocking chair with a baby in my arms listening to the wind in the birch leaves and contemplating how beautiful life really is. And, even when it’s a Jonah Day, it usually only lasts for a day. And I am really lucky. Blessed [...]
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Faith in the journey is what makes a more happy life...
Baby rainbows
especially heather
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earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal
chocolate on my cranium
goodness matters
thoughts from the hearth
Holly Homemaker
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