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In Other Words Tuesday - Prepared for the Lord?
“Just as Our Lord came into human history from outside, so He must come into me from outside. Have I allowed my personal human life to become a “Bethlehem” for the Son of God?”by ~ Oswald ChambersMy...
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Recapping 2009
So I did this last year, and it was kind of fun. The first sentences of the first post I made in each month of 2009..January: So, just for fun, I'm going to try participating in some blog memes in the...
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TSMS - An open letter to Third Day
I haven't done a "Then Sings My Soul Saturday" with Amy at Signs, Miracles, and Wonders for quite awhile.. I'm trying to get back into blogging.. Still figuring out what this looks like now that I...
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Feeling Sad...
Loss is hard. Any loss of a loved one is hard. Losing a child, I sometimes believe, is exceptionally difficult because it is so unnatural. One of the things I've really struggled with is finding a way...
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Not Me Monday - 2010 - Vol. 1
I've said it before, and I'll likely say it again, the good thing about NOT doing a weekly "Not Me Monday"? When I finally get one up, I've got LOTS of fodder for it! I suspect you'll enjoy hearing...
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Something silly..
Have you seen the Cottonelle over/under commericials? And the poll on Facebook? Well, I'm a member of "Team UNDER". I'm entering to win a month's worth of Cottonelle in a contest sponsored by Moms...
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IOW Tuesday - Messages from God
A long time ago, before I was even a believer, I was browsing an "Elf Help" book. One of the pages showed an elf trying to get out a door with a HUGE stack of presents, and another elf was holding the...
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A Special Visitor!
We were very blessed recently to receive a visit from Patches, the bear!Ter, at With an Angel on my Shoulder, started sending Patches around the country (and Canada) to help "patch up" the broken...
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Something for Seth
(This is a "sticky" post. Scroll down for more.)I wanted to be able to share a pretty flyer, etc but I'm behind the 8 ball yet again, and I don't want to not do this because I got hung up by my...
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Happy 2nd birthday, Seth!
Seth would be two today. We sang Happy Birthday this morning; Cary, Kayleigh and I. Sean is at a Bible Quiz meet out of town and Leland was already working. Kayleigh laid out a spread of cookies and...
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In Other Words Tuesday
Faith saith not 'It is good for me, so God must have sent it' but rather'God sent it, so it must be good for me".Phillips BrooksI've been seeing a counselor off and on for several years. More on, of...
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IOW Tuesday - Suffering People
It's time to host another "In Other Words Tuesday". Does this seem like the only time I post? I'm sorry about that and I"m going to try and do better! For my turn to host "IOW Tuesday", I have...
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I've been mislead..
Somewhere in my life, I had the perception that Sunday afternoons were supposed to be relaxing. This afternoon was not relaxing. How could it be relaxing? It involved an Emergency Room visit AND a 911...
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Seth's story, Our story
I discovered the blog "When Life Hands You a Broken Heart, Create HOPE" on Facebook. For the past week, she has been hosting "Every Heart has a Story". I have shared parts of Seth's story before so I'm...
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I want to want to...
And no, that's not a typo in my header. I'll get to explaining that in a moment. First, I am hosting In Other Words Tuesday again! And I'm late because the holiday threw me off. So upward and onward we...
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Middle of the night musings...
I haven't been feeling well. I slept for HOURS upon HOURS yesterday. Tonight, sleep won't come easy.I am sitting here, in the quiet of my house, in the middle of the night. My brain is whirring and...
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IOW Tuesday - Withdrawing from God
I have rarely in my life felt as close to God as I did in the time period closely following Seth's death. Psalm 34:18 says "The Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in...
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An Open Letter...
Dear Seth,I thought of you today. That's no surprise. I think of you EVERY day. Every minute really. To NOT think of you, would be the surprise. Just as Sean, Cary, and Kayleigh are always on my mind,...
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Six Words Saturday
Even with joy, Grief's still present.I stand by my last post. (The one immediately below this one.) I am doing much better, and it's a testimony to God's faithfulness to have joy back in my life. But I...
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Missing him...
Today is a missing day. Today we celebrate Thanksgiving with my side of the family.My sister is here from out of town with her son, Jack. My brother's family lives here in town. So we will gather, 3...
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Lest we think I'm "over it"...
Today was hard.Yesterday, Leland and I went up to the hospital. The PICU was out of Kleenex. Personally, any family in PICU over Thanksgiving deserves soft Kleenex, in my opinion. So we ran up with...
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God never fails.
God never fails. God NEVER fails."Help me, Lord, my God. Save me according to your unfailing love." (Psalm 109:25-27)I know this. Even when Seth died, I KNEW it was not a failure on God's part. I don't...
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Why I miss blogging.
I had an interesting encounter a couple of weeks ago.Kayleigh's preschool teacher had some concerns about Kayleigh's handwriting. Specifically, she was concerned because Kayleigh can't write her full...
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I'll be honest. Since Seth died, I dislike "new chapters". Something about the concept of 'starting over' feels a lot like 'leaving behind'. I don't want Seth left behind. Just because he's not a...
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