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things regarded as dead
I woke up Easter morning to find an email from a friend that only read: “Today may you start seeing God’s resurrection of things regarded as dead.” One week later, I’m not sure in what ways I’m...
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worried about big legos
During a week filled with worries about class schedules, family illness, nonprofit fundraisers, big decisions, and tax nightmares, I found myself most concerned Wednesday afternoon about whether or...
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i ironed every shirt today
I ironed every shirt I ever actually wear today. I stood in the den ironing and hanging one after another on the pull up bar connected to the door frame. I’ve noticed my own ironing habit over the...
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moving forward. always.
It’s all a mess, of course. We run into it knowing that we have a plan We run into it knowing that we have the knowledge to fix it to solve it to make it better We burn to fix it, to solve it, to make...
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the era at hand
At about a hundred miles an hour it came crashing into my chest this morning, moving up quickly to my throat where it stole my breath and then my eyes which began to pour. In the wind, behind...
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Lord willing, we won’t keep growing
Our Jackson Home posted a piece I wrote reflecting on this year’s Remember Me Walk for survivor’s of homicide loss. This group is astounding to me, and I’ve copied some of the post below with a link to...
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we all will
I watched my own mother file in, first in line of the four women. The two directly behind her I know well and have a heavy respect for as game-changers, rule-writers, integrity-definers, and...
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silence encourages the tormentor
“Are you German?” he asked as three friends stood beside him; two stood to his left, one to his right. “No. Of course I’m not,” I answered, realizing as the words came out of my mouth that being a...
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the hollow chair
The chair isn’t just empty now, with its cushion recently turned back over to the “company side;” the chair is at present more like a shadow, hollowed out in form, a two-dimensional image in a...
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