Tag: challenges
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Never Underestimate The Power Of A Cuke
Looking at a lowly cucumber, one would never guess its potential as a weapon. Or something you’d have to warn your kids to be careful to use. I’m living–and hurting–proof that there’s more to a common cucumber than a salad fixin’. I was shopping with my youngest, getting vegetables to make a salad for…
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The View From Up Here–Or Down There
I’m sitting on a roof in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. An incredible perch, to say the least. John and I are here visiting our youngest, Debbie, and her team, who’ve been ministering to student athletes in the university system in Puerto Rico. I’ve never been here before, and I’m overwhelmed by sights and sounds so different from…
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I’ll Have My Whine Over Ice
How many ways can someone whine about something over which they have no control? I haven’t hit it yet. The number of ways must be astronomical. I have whiney on the brain. So when I recently passed a store with a sign that spoke to my crabby heart, I had to laugh. It was me.…
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Where In The World Am I?
We all have our challenges. Those things that complicate life by their mundane pettiness but are nonetheless always in our sight. I’m vertically challenged, for example. I claim to be 5 feet, three inches, but I’m, in fact, a half inch shy of that. It’s not an issue worthy of concern. Unless I sit on…
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When Making Me Better Really Bites
I will admit to being a somewhat aggressive person. A git ‘er done kind of gal. It’s often quite positive. Moving me towards goals I’d like to achieve. Jobs I want to finish. It does have its downside. My mouth is now suffering from my eagerness to do it right. I was told I’d need…
