I heard a story in church recently about a teen girl who had an unplanned pregnancy and thought the baby would ruin her life. When she told her grandma, a devout Catholic woman, about the pregnancy, she thought her grandma would be upset. But her grandma just said, “Whenever God wants to change the world,
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In two months, she’s gone from this: To this. From this: To this. She’s adorable when she’s sleeping, bright-eyed when she’s awake, and she has a smile that is way too precious and alive to be captured on camera. In her young life, she’s been on three overnight trips, two of which were weddings. She
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I have been doing a lot of riding along with Ivan recently. On the tractor (spring fieldwork is just starting), delivering hay, picking up or dropping off farm machinery for a local dealer. It gets me out of the house and gives me time with my husband I wouldn’t get otherwise. I admit to getting
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I like getting up at the same time every morning. Six o’clock (or six thirty by the time we push the snooze two or three times), every morning, steady as the granola we eat for breakfast. I like the sureness of this simple routine. Growing up, I woke when I wanted to. I also slept
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Deer Lake. Second only to Rusk County—and now Garrett County, Maryland—as home of my heart. I cannot write a fraction of what I know of her, but with you I share your beauty, so that maybe you will love her, too. I traveled there in July with the first six people in this plane. This
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