Tag: Christianity
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Not What I Asked For
Photo courtesy of Suna Valid on Unsplash I hate being sick. After a crazy summer of travel and family, of being with people at every turn, the germs finally caught up with me. I’m a prisoner to the sniffles and snot. I can blame it on the littles, because they are a petri dish for…
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Jump For Joy
As a family spread out across the US, it’s not easy to get together. It takes planning, adjusting, and a willingness to compromise to be with one another. I’m grateful that our six children are willing to flex to accommodate their siblings. Photo ops happened throughout our recent vacation, and as I was perusing the…
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Is There Ever Enough?
When they were growing up, my kids loved stuffed animals. The bigger, the better. We have a huge elephant now that we’ve had for over a decade, and it’s still a beloved place to lie down and nap. Or just pretend to nap. Kolly loves her “stuffies” so much that at any chance she gets…
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Whole Growth
She just turned ten, and this is the summer when she gets to go to sleep-away camp for the first time. Sloane is one of those young people who makes friends wherever she goes. She spends five minutes in line at Chick-fil-A talking to another young gal, and they’re buddies by the time they get…
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We Are Family
Boys will be boys. There is no saying, “Girls will be girls.” Curious, I did a little googling and found out that this originated from a Latin phrase, “sunt pueri pueri, pueri puerilla tractant,” which translates to “boys are boys, and boys act like boys.” It became part of the English language in 1589. This…
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