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Surrounded by babies and pregnancies. But for us, just monthly disappointment. We signed up to adopt a baby through the state of Georgia–a list years long. I went back to the doctor. “You’re just waiting to become pregnant,” he said. Sigh. Dennis came home one day and said, “They want us to move to Florida. Just for 12-18 months. They want . . . → Read More: Her Father’s Joy Gracee has a problem with focus and staying in her second-grade seat. I say she’s observant and creative. She also talks a lot. I say she’s social. The psychologist says she has clinical ADD. Attention time for something not particularly interesting? Five minutes. Tops. I help out in her class on Thursday mornings, reading with the kids or taking them to a . . . → Read More: 4 Tips From a 7-Year-Old to Keep Bum in Chair I know a little about craving. Chocolate. Chips. Chocolate chips. Chocolate-covered chips. But Crave is about another kind of craving. More satisfying. A craving that consumes. Chris writes, “This longing, this deep-seated craving for more and more of God, is slowly consuming my life.” Chris is funny, deep, and writes with unsettling honesty. He says what some of us . . . → Read More: Book Review – Crave by Chris Tomlinson I lay awake on my back in the dark listening to my husband’s soft breathing. He lay on his stomach, his right arm tossed across my neck, hand resting on my face. I held that hand with my left and nestled my cheek into its cup, seeing it in my mind. My right hand gently brushed . . . → Read More: My Husband’s Hand Illness tackled me for the last couple weeks. In my better moments, I amused myself by doing a little research for my Putty Grampa books. I have a 16-stanza poem that my great-great grandfather wrote about his life as a shanty boy. I have a piece of wallpaper from a family farmhouse. I have my father’s fleeting . . . → Read More: Research Resource–Ancestry.com I think my left side is permanently wrinkled. I spent most of yesterday on it. I started by sitting on the couch to watch the news. And slid down ever so slowly. Basically into a stupor. One of those weird days where eyes refuse to focus. Momentarily sort of awake, sometimes, but not really. Incorporating news reports . . . → Read More: Sickness–A Gift? “Has life and disappointment caused you to shove your writing aside? Enjoy your time off. It’s all part of your journey.” “The real writers always return to writing.” Having set my writing aside for so many years, I dig this post by Brandilyn Collins! Forensics & Faith: Five Reasons Why the Unpublished Can . . . → Read More: Forensics & Faith: Five Reasons Why the Unpublished Can Stop Writing Mary’s in the kitchen cooking up spaghetti sauce today in the midst of a hectic schedule. While she attends to her writing and various family needs, bloggers battle for interviews. Thin Places officially released this week to rave reviews, one of which can be found here. At any rate, I elbowed my way through the crowd and . . . → Read More: Mary DeMuth: One Word/One Line Interview Patience.I want it. But it is precious produceSown in the soil of adversity.Timid tendrilUncurlingPressing upwardPrunedProtectedWarmedWateredUntil the fullness of time.His time.And so I wait.Now. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control . . .” Galatians 5:22-23 How does YOUR patience grow? NOTE: This post is part of the Blog Carnival . . . → Read More: Patience Now I wanted to scoop up the 5-year-old Mary and cradle her in my arms, along with every other young innocent. I wanted to throttle those who stole her innocence. I clutched the book to my heart. I wept. And yet redemption and grace and beauty shine through the pain. And forgiveness in spite of the pain. From Amazing . . . → Read More: Book Review – Thin Places by Mary DeMuth |
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