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Jun 03, 2011

When the cloud doesn’t move

The ancient account of how God led His people through the desert came to life in bright pictures displayed. There to the right was the pillar of cloud by day,

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Jun 01, 2011

Hey, you – let go now

I see you.  I know you because I’ve been in that place.  I know that weight, that thing that’s pressing in, pulling you down – you know, that thing you never

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May 31, 2011

‘Cocktail of terror’ includes shortage of coffee, teen drivers

Lucky for them, I’ve managed to escape ephebiphobia.  That’s the fear of teenagers.  And lucky for me, I don’t have androphobia.  That’s the fear of men.  What I do have

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May 24, 2011

Family’s annual tradition of Indy mini-marathon continues

Officially, there were two of us running again.  Unofficially, everybody runs.  Just because the rest of us don’t have numbers pinned on our shirts doesn’t mean we’re not running.  As

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May 23, 2011

It should be natural

She hugged me there on the high stool in my favorite corner.  “What are you reading?” she asked eagerly. “I’m in Isaiah,” I said, “and I wish I could understand

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May 18, 2011

Look up

Just home from an end-of-the-year meeting at school, I get Little his breakfast, grind up the beans, and measure fresh coffee into the filter.  Cream (the real kind) swirls like ribbons

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May 17, 2011

I’ll take a gas pedal and airbags with that horse, if you don’t mind

Another thing I’d look for, if I were in the market for a horse, is side airbags.  The BMV has ‘em.  Overprotective mother that I am, they give me a

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May 16, 2011

There’s healing in the hem

All the physicians she’d consulted through the years had been of no help.  Desperate, she’d gone to one, then another, and still she bled. Penniless now, hemorrhaging unchecked, she inched

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May 13, 2011

That’s a bitter pill (so I’ll need a mocha)

One of our sons, for instance, came packaged with a strong-willed temperament.  He doesn’t give up easily.  When he sets his mind on something, he hangs on with every fingernail,

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May 10, 2011

It’s a chilly, wet, and crazy season – and where are those goats?

Then April came, and Dawning Generation, the show choir, appeared at the Maple Syrup Festival.  Family came once more.  And once more, we all cheered, clapping and shouting for them

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