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Everyday Fruit

Freedom from Babble, Why We all Can Be Prayer-Full

11.09.2012

In this age of information and endless access to word after word after word…I am always startled at Jesus’ economy of words, the way He spoke so few and yet meant so much, the way His five word answers left everyone else speechless.   And in my own days of feeling like all I do [...]

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A Small Thing: Play

11.08.2012

We sat and talked about how her babies were no longer and she wondered how many years she really had still had with them, how much time was left.  Her oldest was already a teenager and she said it with tears brimming, ‘I hope I haven’t lost him.’ She told me how she used to [...]

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Because Baby Steps are No Small Thing

11.07.2012

‘Why don’t we say she’s so many months now?  Why did Elaine skip being twelve months?’ I tell my big girl that the days and the months add up and twelve whole months make one year. Is she really already one whole year? We put one candle in a cupcake and the little one’s in [...]

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Why It’s Okay to be a Small Thing

10.12.2012

They signed their name and it was theirs, the first house they could call ‘home’, the one with the huge tree in front. Less than one week passed before they knew they’d need someone to come see about that towering hardwood. The tree expert showed up with all his equipment and gave them the bad [...]

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For the Know-It-All

10.09.2012

It was after they brought him before the experts and asked him all those questions, after they approved the final draft of at least twenty, after they put those three letters behind his name-PhD.  It was after all of that that he said it… That the more and more he learned, the more and more [...]

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How to Play the Prettiest Song (or Why You Should Turn off the TV)

10.05.2012

The book came with a CD and Carolyn’s teacher said to listen to it everyday, to somehow listen for an hour. I scramble eggs to ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ tapped out on the piano keys in a million different rhythms and the kids giggle.  We drive through the neighborhoods and ‘Twinkle, Twinkle’ accompanies the ride. [...]

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What the Scarecrows are Telling You

10.03.2012

It’s October and the scarecrows are hanging in the neighborhood again and our Bible reading plan has us in Jeremiah this month.  So, I’m remembering this post from last October… We sat there in those wing-back chairs, both wanting to be right.  I’d had this beautiful stone on my ring finger for two months.  We’d [...]

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Small Things

10.02.2012

David’s stone. Two copper coins. Moses’ rod. Bread and a few fish. A bottle of perfume. All these little people with such small things in such tiny moments of time.    Then, this big God with great love and giant plans makes history. With small things. One small thing offered up by one small person [...]

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The Way to Make Things Turn Around

10.01.2012

I could barely hear her on the other line.  There was an ocean between us, after all. But I heard her say it, heard her say that His love had always been bigger. When they’d lowered their two year old boy in the ground and when they’d had to flee to the States for safety [...]

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The Christian Woman’s Four Letter Word

09.17.2012

I don’t even want to say it. But I find myself apologizing for missing this and overlooking that and not writing as often here and forgetting her and oops, totally neglected that. And the last thing I want to type is this four letter word: B-U-S-Y Oh, I don’t want to be this. Wasn’t it [...]

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