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add a lift to your step

Five Minute Friday – Gather

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...

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I Need You

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...

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Don’t Let The Excuses Win

Don’t Let The Excuses Win

Sometimes I am my own worst enemy. I can let myself make decisions that are easy... but not necessarily the best for me. I, all too often, take the easy way out, and not always the best way out. Take for example, my workouts. Man, am I ever struggling with them right...

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Knowing That He Will

Knowing That He Will

"Faith is not believing God can, it is knowing that He will." This quote hangs in our laundry room. I seem to spend much time in that room, and it reminds me often of where my faith lies. Friend, what is faith to you? What is your faith in? Faith isn't so much about...

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Worth A Thousand Words

Worth A Thousand Words

We've all heard the saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words." Right? An image can express much more in a few seconds than we can read in many minutes. I've been a photo-taking fool over the last two months. You see, my son is in the midst of a full show choir...

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