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Mar 10, 2011

Faith to live and faith to die

It was only a couple of weeks ago as they shared their hearts in class that she said something that caught my attention.  “When I had my tumor several years

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Mar 09, 2011

A heart’s murmur

One by one, they fell.  One by one, ever so slowly, they began to recover.  All, that is, except for Boy Three whose fever had subsided, but whose spark was

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Mar 08, 2011

In times of fear and loss, live boldly

In the face of such sorrow and loss, amidst national upheaval and global unrest, how do we keep going?  How do we stay encouraged?  What reason to we have to

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Mar 04, 2011

“I need to sit on you”

Nearly all winter long, I’d heard the complaints on Facebook.  Entire families were coming down with the crud.  Schools were reporting large numbers of students missing, sidelined by illness.  And

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Mar 01, 2011

There’ll be no sporkings, tag, or POWs – someday

With errands to run and a college kid to visit, we gathered the remnants of our donut feast, topped off the coffee, and moved on.  The next stop?  Target, one

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Feb 28, 2011

The ‘yes’ and the ‘no’

If I had to encapsulate the last 16 months, it could be summed up as “The Year of Battle.”  It’s also been “The Year of Waiting.”  And in a peculiar

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Feb 24, 2011

Are you hungry?

Looking down at his tummy, he pulls his warm, red sweatshirt out and says, “Jesus, are you hungry?”  He pauses, listening, and then looks up, face bright.  “He says yes!” and

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Feb 23, 2011

Breathe in, breathe out

I forget, reaching forward, hoping for what is down the road, wriggling impatiently as I sit in my chair, typing, day after day after day.  It’s hard, this enforced sitting still,

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Feb 22, 2011

Country music full of pain, pathos

“I Thought She Was Out Jogging, But She Was Running Around On Me.”  (I am not making this up.)  Now there’s a girl who should’ve gotten a stationary bike for

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Feb 18, 2011

Dear son, I’ll share the coffee, but the peanut butter’s out