Be it my camera or my husband’s .22 rifle, I want my aim to be right on target, bulls-eye center. I’m drawn to hobbies that run parallel with my talents. Similar to you, I imagine, I like to do things that I am good at, things that I already have some sort of natural...
spiritual practice
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Music
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Life of Worship
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a different kind of workout
I go to the gym five days a week to torture myself. Why? Well 15 years ago it was about having the sculpted body for all the ladies to swoon over me, not that it ever happened, but it was a goal nonetheless. When I realized that I was getting nowhere with that...
for those who walk in darkness
It shatters my slumber, the voice through the monitor. "Gramma. Gramma!" It's still dark. Sigh. Why can't she pull her own blanket up or reach the pillow from the floor? I scootch up high and swing legs over and around the cat. I palm the walls, slide heel-toe down...
crystal blue persuasion
Grace has brought a blue-topped spiral notebook as well as two big containers—one of markers, one of crayons. She’s drawn a yellow sun in the left corner, and I smile because the prelude was called “Sun of my Soul.” We missed the prelude. “Be sure to put the top back...
for when you’re really scared
Have you ever been scared? Not just a little scared or just said that you were...
once upon a time there were three bears. or just one.
Sometimes ordinary moms turns into mama-bears. Just threaten our children and...
complete in Him
She stands on the thin, white carpet, anxiously waiting to salute the judges...
reflections from a waiting room
Her name tag reads “Colleen.” She wears blue scrubs, and the...
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