Tag: Satan
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Who Holds Your Megaphone?
I am a naturally loud person. I speak loudly and laugh with enough decibels to be heard from a distance. As a soccer nana, the grands now tell me what their parents once told me–they can hear me on the sidelines. Two of my daughters coach high school soccer; one is rather soft-spoken, and the…
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I Don’t Do Slither
I felt it and reacted before I ever saw what it was. While mowing our backyard, near our pond, I felt something wind around my ankles, slithering slowly. My response was not slow. Hanging onto the mower with one hand, I jumped, danced and screamed. When I glanced down I saw movement in the grass…
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Your Enemy Is Not Who You Think
“There is no natural predator for killer whales. They used to think great white sharks were it, but the killer whales just flip them on their backs and wait for them to pass out. Then they eat them. They kill giant squids, too.” This wasn’t a Discovery Channel program or a quote from National Geographic.…
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Done…And Just Beginning
Life exists on the other side of the writers conference. I questioned that. I went into it with fear–of failure, of rejection, of not being enough. Didn’t sleep the night before we left because of nerves. I’ve emerged from it with a sense of perspective, hope and more confident that I should write. Didn’t see…
Tip of My Iceberg 