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sacrifice.

in my mind, i am made up of a whole bunch of parts of a person i really want to be. i’m a mom. a writer. a helper. a thinker. a doer. in reality…i struggle with the fact that maybe i’m not really any of those things. i am a mom who finds herself with […]

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called.

today, my daughter called me from the International Wesleyan Youth Convention in Indianapolis in tears. i could literally hear the smile on her face as she sniffed and sobbed. i was so confused. i asked if she was ok. she said, “i’m really ok, Momma.” and she went on to explain that during a message […]

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camp

i attended camp every summer of my life from the age of six until after i graduated from college. at least three weeks of every summer. after freshman year at Houghton, it was 8. 8 weeks. as a tiny person, i went because my parents ran the teen camps, and i attended children’s camp on […]

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to process pain.

i’m sitting here on my couch at 3:00 in the afternoon, fully aware of what i’m supposed to be doing. fully intentional about not doing it. you know, this seems like the only time i actually post: when i’m avoiding something i know i need to get done. i guess, however, after looking back over all […]

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laser focus

the vague terms in which i keep speaking here really bother me. apparently, however, they’re all i’ve got to work with. well, that and cakes. loads and loads and loads of cakes. it’s funny how in the depths of all the crap i’m dealing with in important areas of my life, i think back to 3 weeks […]

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figuring it out.

i saw this posted the other day, and it got me thinking. i’m sure the thoughtfulness had something to do with the fact that “we’ll figure it out” has been something of a hated family motto over the past seven or eight years, and that, recently, it has renewed vigor. and actually, more than getting […]

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all i can do

i was slammed this week with several things i just can’t handle. and, you know, i’ve been slammed with a lot of things in my life i was pretty sure i couldn’t handle. none of them even came close to this week. not one. i sat in that counselor’s office on two different occasions and simply […]

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failed.

about a year ago, after realizing the depths to which a father can sink, my then-14-year-old daughter blamed God.  for everything. everything bad that ever happened in her life, every question she could come up with that flew in the face of everything she had been taught for 14 years, every single, solitary questionable thing. […]

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thinking.

have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something which will eventually receive a) a grade or b)a potential critique…you write more intently and more intentionally than you would if you were sitting down to write yourself a note? think back to college. high school, even. you write yourself a note–something you […]

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purpose.

in the past three weeks, i have challenged my kids to think pretty deeply about who they are. what they like. what they love. who they want to be some day.  i have encouraged them to dream. picture their lives 5 years from now. 10 years from now. think about the people they know whom […]

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