Fullness of life. My child lies on her child-sized table watching a kids music video. Her eyes sparkle shine. A cardinal flashes past my window. Sun makes grass bright, a vibrant yellow green. I rarely let Annalise watch media on my phone…but on a whim this morning I found her animated children’s songs on You […]
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I once read a book about the five Chinese elements—fire, earth, water, wood, metal—and how they map onto human personalities. As a disclaimer, I don’t go in for the signs of the zodiac or predicting personality by birth year, etc. This book wasn’t that, but instead took the angle of using the elements to categorize
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Lately some words from an article I once wrote have been running through my mind: We serve a God who is a master of fixing. I wrote the article for the CLP Sunday school papers at the ripe wise age of 23 and am a little embarrassed to read it now. It seems so very
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Watching Annalise, I am amazed at the qualities of humanity that come to her naturally, things I don’t have to teach her. Negative things sometimes, of course–but I revel in the positive and linger longest over those. Imagination, humor, a sense of justice, joy…how beautiful to see that these things are so intrinsic to human
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Recently a couple of ladies–older moms I respect and admire–made comments on a few of my blog posts that show me I’m not the only woman who grapples with the change in identity that comes with motherhood. “I didn’t quite know who I had become,” one said, referring to how it feels to be a
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