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It’s been a long day. I’ve been telling myself we’ll make it to bedtime with everyone’s sanity and hearts intact. I’ve been telling myself we’re doing great and it’s ok to be a little tuckered out. I’ve been telling myself I’m just a little tense with the old nerves, it’s been a long day, you…
other thinkings…
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how could this be
Read more: how could this bethat from so many tears, joy would bloom? that from such deep heartache, I would know love better, more intimately, than others who have been spared? that my children would see their mommy get out of bed, shed her grave clothes, and take on another day? I’ll tell you how. Jesus. He promised me back when I was thirteen and feeling the all-familiar ache of…
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swordfight casualty
Read more: swordfight casualtyThe other day when I had to take the trash out, I treated myself to a handful of my daughter’s Jelly Belly jelly beans. The kids were at their peak of the early evening, the point when all three of their energies perfectly align to result in chaos and noise. Yes, joy is there too, but for the sadness that has recently trailed along, it…
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Psalm 113
Read more: Psalm 113Praise the Lord!Praise, O servants of the Lord,praise the name of the Lord!Blessed be the name of the Lordfrom this time forth and forevermore!From the rising of the sun to its setting,the name of the Lord is to be praised!The Lord is high above all nations,and his glory above the heavens!Who is like the Lord our God,who is seated on high,who looks far downon the…
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His grace is
Read more: His grace isSomething beautiful happened a few weeks ago. On Mother’s day. My day. It wasn’t significant elsewhere, but in the pew where I sat for church, something happened. Something important and glorious and hard and hopeful. All for me. I’ve been angry lately. I’ve been angry and resentful and prideful. Angry like a blister that bursts its juice and the dead skin is peeled back to…
Do justice. Love kindness. Walk humbly.
scribbling along since 2013
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