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Apr 04, 2024

No consequences, only results–trusting what God has allowed

This post is for family. And by ‘family,’ I mean those who have put their faith in God and, as such, have become one of his kids by the miracle

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Mar 30, 2024

For victims (and purveyors) of shame, there is hope

It came to me on the heels of a big mistake. For months, I’d suffered from brain fog, my short-term memory just shot to the hot place, thanks to long

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Mar 27, 2024

Encounter in the air: tall probation officer meets America’s small, caffeinated mom

This week, I read an alarming story about a Christian woman in 1980s communist Romania who barely survived an assassination attempt by the government. Thanks to President Reagan, she escaped

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Mar 27, 2024

For mature, healthy kids, stop “carrying pillows”

If there was ever a job at which I wanted to be perfect, it was mothering. Unfortunately, the Schrocklets Four did not come with instruction manuals, how-to guides, YouTube tutorials,

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Mar 27, 2024

The grand advantage

It’s been six years now since he left. On February 21, 2018, Billy Graham exhaled mountain air for the last time and inhaled that heavenly air. He was 99. Billy

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Mar 21, 2024

It’s nice to see your face

I’m walking in to work. The wind is cold. The orange sun that rose past the barn this morning has not yet warmed the earth. Passing the library, there she

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Feb 23, 2024

Weighting and waiting

This essay first appeared on The Daily BS on February 10, 2024. His story began with waiting. For 2-1/2 months of preterm labor and bedrest, we awaited his arrival. Sure

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Feb 10, 2024

A sea of ‘ones’

This essay first appeared on The Daily BS on February 3, 2024. It happened some years ago. I was working full time, raising children, and writing a weekly newspaper column.

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Feb 09, 2024

Who we are

This essay first appeared on The Daily BS on January 27, 2024. This week in presidential politics, Congressman Dean Phillips, candidate from New Hampshire, made a remarkable discovery. After attending

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Jan 27, 2024

“You’ve got one more hill left in you”

This essay first appeared on The Daily BS on January 20, 2024. It came, as many lessons have, on a cross-country course. In the blazing sun, beneath a summer sky,

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