From the monthly archives:

June 2012

The Way to Get Over Yourself (and Get Joy)

06.28.2012

‘I heard you weren’t feeling so well.  I just called to see how you were.  Tell me about it.  Is there anything I can do?’ We talk and I tell her all about it and she listens for a long time.  We talk and talk and finally talk together to God.  We pray long and [...]

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A Small Thing: A Tight Budget

06.27.2012

You’d never know I studied Accounting and Math in college when you see the way I make the credits and debits balance in this house.  I do as Jen Hatmaker does: I nickel and dime us to death.  It’s not the big purchases that run up the credits, but the little ones.  The ‘oh look, [...]

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Remember the Gospel: Dig in the Dirt

06.26.2012

We drove back this week and I remembered this post from last June.  The Showstar flowers and the sunflowers, the Vincas, the Lantana–they’ve all come back from last year, shown their faces out of the good soil and now reach their petals toward the sun.  And I’m reminded to let the good Gardener tear me [...]

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The Words that Can Undo You

06.25.2012

There is just too much to be done in this world when everything seems to do nothing but come undone. And there’s just too much for me to do.   So much that needs so much. The weight of it all can make the covers feel too heavy to push back in the mornings.  It [...]

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And a Wee Bit of Self Control

06.20.2012

We all laugh about self control and the fact that we have so little.  But really, it’s no laughing matter.  I mean, who hasn’t cried and despaired and felt all alone because they just couldn’t get their emotions and appetites, their anger or their whatever under control?  I know I have. I’ve been feasting on [...]

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The Song that {Really} Never Ends

06.19.2012

There are days where the vanity of this life can suffocate-the spinning and turning of the same ol’, same ol’. The up and down, the in and out, the pull out, the put away, the dirty it up, the clean it off.  Some days these feet hear the hum of the treadmill as I pass [...]

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Why Bother to Pray? (and a printable)

06.18.2012

That parable about the guy banging on the door at midnight has always bothered me.  Is God the man all cozy in his house hot and bothered by my incessant begging for bread at the most inconvenient hour?  But the story’s more about the beggar than the man inside.  The point Jesus was making was [...]

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The One Thing Daddy Needs This Year

06.14.2012

There are days that pass when I forget to pray for him, forget to ask God to live in him fully, to abide in him, to change him fully into Christ’s likeness.  There are days that I can do nearly everything while thinking of him and yet neglect to do this one thing that he [...]

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If You Know Where You’ve Come From

06.13.2012

In a world of self made {wo}men, do any of us know what the self is really made of?  In a world where everyone wants to know where you’ve come from, do any of us know from whom we’ve come? Is there such a thing as a self made anything? ‘A person cannot receive even [...]

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5 Gifts You Can’t Fit In a Box for Father’s Day

06.12.2012

My husband’s a chemist.  He wears lab coats and safety glasses.  He has three neckties and in my opinion, that’s about two too many. All day, every day, he works under a hood with things that could seriously blow up at any minute.  Not exactly the place for a cute little calendar or picture frame. [...]

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