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A Gift
Sometimes God gives you a gift, a special gift just for you to let you know that He knows the desires of your heart and He delights in your joy. The sort of gift that is wrapped up in beautiful paper...
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On Laundry
Laundry...oh, laundry. Laundry and I have had a love-hate relationship since I was sixteen: Laundry loves to accumulate at a rapid rate in my closet, and I hate to do it.I've long told my kids that...
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Stuck on the Elevator
It was Monday, the second Monday I meant to write my gratitude journal for the rest of my crazy last year. The second Monday I had intended to finish up the story of it all because it needs to be...
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seedstake them in your handspilling overthrough trembling fingers they poursliding, one over anothersmooth brown seed coatsflowbroadcast them widesweeping outlet them fly through open handsreleased, a...
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What Dreams....(word candy)
What dreams still waitbehind closed doorsknocking wearilylonging to be heard over the din of now?Playing with Word Candy today....try your own at www.wordcandy.me
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Death Star (Adventures in Produce)
It started out innocently enough. "You'll never guess what I saw in the produce department," Middle child casually mentioned as we unloaded groceries. "They had a bunch of exotic fruit...dragon...
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Word Candy....
When did it becomea foolish thingto love wholly, submit to abandonembrace the risk of passion?Who taught us to give, insteada calculated sort of lovemeasured out in teaspoonsrationed by fear?Despite...
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A Little Truth for February...Part 1 (the Jelly Donut Gospel)
This is a talk I gave a church this month, on the topic of "To Stand for Truth or to Abandon it." I'm sorry to have been MIA for so long...I've been working on the talk, and on some other writing. I...
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This is a talk I gave a church this month, on the topic of "To Stand for Truth or to Abandon it." I'm sorry to have been MIA for so long...I've been working on the talk, and on some other writing. I...
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This is a talk I gave a church this month, on the topic of "To Stand for Truth or to Abandon it." I'm sorry to have been MIA for so long...I've been working on the talk, and on some other writing. I...
View ArticleA Little Truth for February: Part IV (Woman of Valor)
This is a talk I gave a church this month, on the topic of "To Stand for Truth or to Abandon it." I'm sorry to have been MIA for so long...I've been working on the talk, and on some other writing. I...
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My Whole House
It is another of those busy days, a Sunday. Our friends suggest dinner and we decline, too many loose ends to tie up before the work-week begins and too few hours to find some rest. And then we pick...
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A Little Gluten-Free Love...
This one was too good not to share. While sitting in the shop waiting for new tires to be put on the van, I had the opportunity to thumb through some Sunset magazines. I ran across this cake recipe,...
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The Bullies Do Not Win.
I've been thinking a lot about bullies lately, for multiple reasons. Nick Vujicic came to our state to speak on the topic in the public schools, and for the last month I've been reading a lot about...
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In the balance
i want to lay myself downwhere earth meets skyand there, being neither one nor the otherrest in the balance
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Rubicon
RubiconI have worn out my solespacing this pebbled shoreeyes grown wearywatching the distant otherI have the courage, I thinkto cross the watercast my paper boats adrift set them afire, watch them...
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Roots (a post from the archive)
Dusting off the blog and doing a little housekeeping. In the meantime, the State Fair was last week. Here's a post from the archives about the day I took the kids to their first Rodeo....Little me,...
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Backseat Conversations: Elephant Coffee
In an effort to lighten things up around here, I'm starting a new category of posts...."Backseat Conversations." What are backseat conversations? I love to evesdrop on my kids, they say the most...
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Dear Foster Baby
Dear Foster Baby,Your third birthday is on Saturday. Three years old! It's hard to imagine, and easy to picture at the same time. You left my arms just six weeks after turning a year old, how can the...
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On Autumn (the dying of the year)
There is beauty everywhere, in unexpected places, yes even in the spaces where it seems least likely of all.All around me, the leaves are falling. This is a season of dying, of beautiful dying: the...
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Shelter
We drive past the railroad tracks, scars cut thick through the dirt at the end of some road that I've driven past a hundred times, but never seen. The shelter is behind a chain link fence, just a low...
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When You Want to Press Rewind
It's a strange feeling, standing here in this mostly empty house. It has been nearly 3 years, but it still feels like home. It's hard, renting out the place that once was your home. Hard to let it go...
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New Wordpress Site...
I'm working on migrating this blog to a new wordpress site, please follow me at http://ephale.wordpress.com/I'm not sure how this process is going to work, but I'll keep both sites updated for a...
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When you feel burned out
Just a reminder: I'm now blogging over at my Wordpress site, which you can find here. Please join me there for more new posts! Burnout.Chances are good you've experienced it...if you've got a...
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