Month: December 2015

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Dec 28, 2015

When your imagination’s running wild (what you need to know)

Outside, a winter storm’s moved in. Rain sounds, tink-tink-tink like frozen bullets against the window. The wind, it howls, whips ’round corners, tossing branches, and inside… In my quiet house,

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Dec 23, 2015

When you’re not the prettiest one in the room

FacebookTwitterGoogle+DiggPinterestBlogger This is not an easy post for me to write. There are a number of reasons for this. Suffice it to say, it’s enough for me to tell you

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Dec 21, 2015

When you need His hand on your back

Standing at the kitchen sink, I look up. The Painter, I see, has slipped by in the night, touching the trees on The Three with a colorful brush. The leaves,

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Dec 16, 2015

Letters from a Friend: Why it’s safe to collapse

The morning sun that shone on you today as you ran was Me. The clouds that had hovered for days, blocking the light, parted for just a bit at Father’s

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Dec 11, 2015

Dear tired mother

You came to my mind just today. I was driving along in the predawn dark. The earliest sun was just caressing the edge of the world, fingers reaching, and I

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Dec 04, 2015

A white Christian girl walks into a bar

It comes in the early-morning dark. An email slips into an inbox. It is the next step, another link in an unlikely chain of events, taking an unlikely girl to an

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