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Posted in Celebration, Christmas, Family on Dec 25th, 2008
I spent the day eating chocolate truffles, laughing at my sister-in-law rapping to Rockband, and lounging with the people I love most in the world. We cooked some food and washed some dishes, too, but those mundane details were lost in the fun. Grace discovered the wonder of creation-again. She turned her new camera [...]
Posted in Celebration, Love, Mothers on Dec 8th, 2008
I received another one. A text that to most anyone else would be all nonsense. Dmwajtgpajtdmwajtgpajtdmwa…. Four lines. It’s almost always the same. The letters are the same, in the same order. And it means the same thing. My husband and kids also get the same text. Sometimes multiple times a day. No, [...]
Posted in Disappointment, Grace, Sovereignty on Dec 8th, 2008
Poor Jonah. We sometimes laugh at this pouting prophet, but I’m probably in his company more often than I would want you to know. Perhaps we all share a similarity to this comic-relief specimen of humanity. Maybe we should go a little easier on Jonah. God had a plan for Jonah’s life-a specific mission [...]
Posted in Celebration, Grace on Dec 3rd, 2008
Rahab didn’t have much to live for until she welcomed two strangers into her home. She lived in a pagan land under barren circumstances. To survive, she allowed others to defile her. As a woman in that situation she had probably given up hope that life would ever really be good. Reputation wasn’t a consideration; [...]