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add a lift to your step
Five Minute Friday – Plan
It's one of my favorite times of the week. It's Five Minute Friday! Where many of us write for five minutes on a one-word prompt without concern of grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. It's such a freeing thing to do, and I look forward to it each week. We gather...
When Shine Replaces Shame
Each time I visited our fridge I would see the words of truth that transformed my heart... Over the years, the index card holding those words has somehow disappeared. But its truth remains embedded in my heart. You see, for decades I wore myself out attempting to earn...
Mom, Dad Keep Doing What You’re Doing
Parenting is hard work. There were times when I questioned if all I was doing was worth it. The fruits of my labor were absent. I was tired. Worn out. Weary in my parenting. Was anything I modeled and taught sinking in? Let alone, so often I felt like I was failing as...
How Do You Want To Be Remembered?
It was one of those moments. You know the kind. Where all of life seems to stop. What you thought was important yesterday, suddenly looked trivial. The small matters that recently consumed your mind, quickly blurred and faded away. As I sat there in the pew, I...
Five Minute Friday – Gather
Five Minute Friday. The days and weeks fly by, don't they? Here we are again. It's one of my favorite times of the week. Many of us gather on Twitter in a big #fmfparty community, we take five minutes to free-write on a given one-word prompt, and we gather back...
I Need You
My daughter's car accident her senior year. The mono she dealt with just weeks before. My son's eye injury. The death of my father. Then of my mother. Finding my friend unconscious, who days later died of a brain aneurysm. The phone call from my daughter who was in...
