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A Week in Pictures
Just a few random shots I grabbed last week while out and about. I'm linking up with The Creative Exchange for the first time. I love what Lisa has going on over there! Check out all the amazing...
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The Love eDition
I'm linking up with The Cafe today for Texture Tuesday.When Kim threw out the word LOVE as our inspiration prompt, I immediately thought of my grandson quoting me 1st Corinthians 13 this past week. I...
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A Change is Coming
I've never been real clear on what I want my blog to be about. I first created it to chronicle the dailyness of living with chronic depression in hopes that it would help me sort things out while...
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Seeds of Hope
The summer blooms fade, shrivel and die but in that dying process seeds for new life emerge. They are gathered and kept. They become our hope and supply our plans for the future. I've been collecting...
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Gratitude
These little stones I gathered one summer on our beach walks. Each one caught my eye and as I bent to pick them up and put them in my pocket, I noticed a funny look on my husbands face. He said nothing...
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God Can Handle Your Authenticity
Have you ever felt like there are many in the faith community that tend to render all of life's problems down to a simple formula or platitude? Have you shared your darkest places, your painful...
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The Need for an Apology
"Mrs. Holden is the reason the world is the way it is."Really? You have no idea how relieved I was to hear these words. I was overjoyed knowing that someone had figured it all out and could explain it...
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A Day for Play
I have no words today. I wanted to chronicle more of the journey but I got hung up on the truth. So I played with photos and tried to let God hold me in the space between anguish and hope.
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There is Always Hope
*There is always hope! was scrawled on the top of my homework sheet. I read the words as though they might have been in a foreign language I was learning. I could pronounce the syllables but their...
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The Long Walk Toward Trust
"I'm not safe, but I am good. I will not coddle you any more than a good surgeon only hugs a cancer-stricken child. I will not coddle you, but I will purify you. And that takes more, not less, than a...
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Autumn Leaves
The beauty of Autumn is undeniable. Brilliant color is painted onto the canvas of creation in wide, bold strokes. The sunlight is softer, the days are shorter and early evenings bring everyone home....
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Photography: Before & After
BEFORE: A boring photo...AFTER: Something hanging in my beach house!I just love Photoshop!
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Refrain
I've always enjoyed the creative process. I laugh when I think of all the things I have dabbled in over the years!But for the past five years I have been experimenting with photography and Photoshop. I...
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Vision Enhancement
Can you see the little specks of pollen on the center bud?I struggled in elementary school. The problems at home followed me to school and competed with my learning. But beyond that, my severe...
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Mother's Day
I had such a wonderful Mother's Day...I am incredibly grateful that God allowed me to be a mother and then gifted my kids with grace to overlook and forgive my many shortcomings and mistakes.I have to...
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Family Beach Time
I have been looking forward to last weekend all year! Our ENTIRE family gathered at the beach! It couldn't have gone better. I can't tell you how it filled my heart to have my brood (and my brood's...
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Brothers...
Significance is often lost in the blur of the familiar. Matt Carl Phil Bob Jeff Ken RonI recently stumbled upon this photograph of my husband (middle) and...
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Trusting God
Early in my late twenties I became a single-mom, the sole provider of our family of four. It was in desperation and need that my trust in God grew. I saw, almost daily, how the Lord showed up in...
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It's Time
Autumn arrived timidly and was well into October before anyone realized she had stepped off the train.If it were not for the low-riding sun in cloudless skies, most days could pass for August. At least...
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Still. Life.
"Coming to interior stillness requires waiting. Any attempt to hasten the process only stirs up the water anew." Brennan Manning in 'Abba's Child'.Week #1...
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My Life That's His
"Everything comes from Him; exists by His power and is intended for His glory. To Him be glory!" (Rom.11:36) I can't hear it often enough. This life I call my own is a gift and intended for His glory....
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The Dream
Lynnie stood on the marina's dock with cousins who flitted about in childish abandon. The early June sunshine played off her soft yellow curls, kissed her freckled nose and cast brilliant shimmer...
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"When you think about it, Blogging is so egotistical."These words were recently spoken in a conversation I was part of. They have been reverberating in my head since.A couple days later I was watching...
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Smudge Pot Turned Flower Pot
I'm a junk decorator...I love, love, love finding creative ways to use things that others throw away. My son and daughter in law had some smudge pots left over from their orchard-turned-pasture. I...
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COMFORTABLE CHRISTIANITY
How in the world can comfortable Christianity ever be Christ’s Christianity? Her words, this blogger of grace, leaped off the screen and commingled with my own spirits' groaning. That she wrestled...
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