Tag: celebrate
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When It’s Time To Dance To A New Song
There’s something wonderfully encouraging about celebrating what people have done. Recognizing how they’ve impacted lives around them. Especially if one of those lives is mine. We’ve been in Washington, D.C. this past weekend honoring a couple we’ve known and worked with for many years. They’ve been significant in ministry, developing contextually needful ways of sharing…
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You’re Who Again?
I was looking through our huge Rubbermaid bin of pictures the other day for photos of Courtney as a child. I don’t scrapbook. I didn’t do baby books for my kids. But I’ve got tons of pictures of all of them. Not really. The further they descended in the birth order, the pictures became less…
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May Your Tree Not Be Tipsy
I’ve been amazed at how heavy some of the new Christmas ornaments have become. It would take branches made of rock to hold some of them. Regular Paul Bunyan trees. Or really strong fake trees. I’ve got a thing for snowman ornaments. Quite possibly it has a lot to do with not being able to…
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Let ‘Em Eat Cake
“Is it time to sing the birthday song and eat cake?” Isley had meticulously placed candles on her Aunt Melody’s cake. She’d helped me light them, guiding my hand with the matches. Only a few burned fingers. All mine. The only thing on Isley’s fingers was frosting. We stood around my daughter, home for a…
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Creativity Is The Mother Of Fun
When I was growing up in the Midwest, our family would visit new homes as they were being built. We’d walk around and dream of a bigger house, our own bedrooms, more bathrooms. (My grandmother was right. Culturally we have fewer children and more bathrooms in our homes. Go figure.) These Sunday afternoon jaunts weren’t…
Tip of My Iceberg 