Growing Up

After a recent trip to the grocery store, I have determined that I am at a very unusual stage of life.
As we walked back from the grocery store we were momentarily detained at the playground by an inviting set of swings. I set my bag of oatmeal and soup cans on the rocks nearby. While [...]

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Aspen, We Share a Secret

written with music
Aspen, I know your secrets
and I saw you on that day
when they asked me
if this could be my home
where the wild grasses sway
I think… that you love the wind
when it’s raging through your leaves
and I know that
you adore the tempest
more than all the other trees
Rain drops… may as well not fall
if they drip [...]

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Silence

Excerpt from a journal entry I recently wrote for class
In this week’s selection of reading, the author describes the human need to escape from the chaos and mindless noise of everyday life and simply be silent. Without this, he says, he become “fretful, uncertain beings immersed in a cacophony of noise that destroys sanity and [...]

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Morning

I am a morning person.
I’m not sure if this is because I was raised by parents who enjoy getting up before the crack of dawn to jump into an ice-cold swimming pool, or if it is actually a distinct characteristic of my own, but I love mornings. Most mornings, regardless of how long I was [...]

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Leap of Faith

This past year has been a time of wrestling. A page in my journal from last summer says, “My mornings are filled with dreams, my afternoons with questions and my nights with desperate prayers”. It hasn’t changed much since then, I guess. I can’t really say it’s been a bad year, just dynamic. The joys [...]

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Break My Heart for What Breaks Yours

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A Breath of Fresh Prayer

God certainly works in mysterious ways. I asked the Lord to help me find work this spring. After a few months of banging on closed doors and running down dead ends He led me to the job I have now. When He offered it to me, my first thought was, “You want me to work [...]

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Second Bloggy Birthday!

Yes I am cheating. I posted this on the 19th but am setting it for the 11th since I missed my own bloggy birthday. *ashamed*

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St. Patrick’s Day

As told best by Lutfi, the cucumber sock puppet from Veggie Tales.

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A Word on Grace

I love it.
I’m glad God has a “backspace”.
Picture by…myself.

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