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Read more: 1,190Once in a while, there is a moment that catches my breath, as the past four years wave up around me and over me and under me, and I see in a single second just how far God has brought us. Because what is in front of me is a pure, complete, no-doubt-about-it testimony to…
other thinkings…
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exhaustion and thrills
Read more: exhaustion and thrillsThis week has exhausted and thrilled me. I had the chance to participate in the Hudson Valley Writing Program at SUNY New Paltz, mentoring eighteen enthusiastic teenage writers intent on honing their craft. It felt so good to be back in a classroom, near learning again. What is it within that thirsts for knowledge? If […]
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back to the basics
Read more: back to the basicsAs I look back on the past six months, I want to fall to my face and say thank you to God for letting me make it here. Back to the basics. Back to my knees. Back to being broken before the only One who can heal. For awhile there, I tried to make it […]
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home again
Read more: home againComing back to this site feels like opening the door to a stranger’s attic, ascending the steep stairs, and rounding the corner to see the dust glitter in the sunlight. I smell the carpet, feel the warmth of the summer heat, see the tree through the round window as it scrapes its branches against the […]
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counting minutes
Read more: counting minutesThe year started in a place I didn’t expect: New York. As the hours winded down to the last midnight of 2013, all I could think about was being somewhere else, figuratively. Literally. I was supposed to be at the beach in Ecuador with my sisters’ husbands’ family. I was supposed to be drinking a […]
Do justice. Love kindness. Walk humbly.
scribbling along since 2013
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a scribble of jo 