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to encourage your heart and
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The Blog
to encourage your heart and
add a lift to your step
Five Minute Friday – Door
Here we go! It's again Five Minute Friday. I missed last week, as we were in Chicago at the Show Choir National Championships. (My son's show choir took 3rd Place in the entire nation, by the way!) But it's good to be back with the Five Minute Friday gang. Here we...
His Love Is Enough
I've given my son, who's a high school senior, some encouraging advice lately. "Don't look at all you have to do. Just do the next thing." "Trust God in your disappointments, and recount your blessings." "Nothing happens in life that isn't sifted through God's hands...
When Life Gets Too Serious
Deadlines to meet. Decisions to make. Duties to do. Schedules to keep track of. Commitments to keep. Bills to pay. Carpools. Laundry. Emails. Homework. It's no wonder how life can get too serious. And if we're not careful, so can we. It's been weeks of working late,...
Five Weeks!!!
Making a list and checking it twice doesn't just happen at Christmastime. Ask any mom of a soon-to-be high school graduate, and she'll tell you she's doing just that. And much, much more. Five weeks from today our youngest will walk across that commencement stage and...
Five Minute Friday – Tomorrow
It's Five Minute Friday (eve), and I missed the party (#fmfparty) on Twitter tonight, but I looked forward all day to writing tonight with my #fmfparty friends. It's like a flash mob of sorts, where a bunch of us free-write for five minutes on a one word prompt and we...
Embrace Who You Are
Preparing for our son's graduation from high school next month, I lost myself in a pile of photographs over the weekend. You probably know the kind. Those of the chubby baby years, the adorable toddler years, and yes, even the long-haired early-teen years. (The last...
