created to thrive
Three months. Your shoes, your coat, your hat, are not hanging in your mudroom anymore. Your car is not in your driveway, your closet is cleaned out. Your office is being rearranged, your drawers are emptied – but somehow you are still here. Your hat and jacket hang at my place now and I wouldn’t […]
Continue ReadingThere is a certain type of bird that sings in the night. I don’t hear it often, but I absolutely love it when I do. It is singing tonight and I wish I could thank it – this precious little bird that sings through the darkness. The morning after Dad left us, the morning sun […]
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My dad moved to heaven on February 18, 2019. On February 20 my mom came down from upstairs with a journal in her hand and something she wanted to share with us kids. She said she woke up early that morning and felt like she was standing on the edge of a precipice. She was […]
Continue ReadingOne Month. Oh Daddy. Oh Daddy I miss you. One month closer to seeing you again. I have to admit, I’m not always as strong as I have hoped I would be. One day I know I will be okay. I know I can do this, Dad. I know I can run my race well, […]
Continue ReadingSoul-sucking. That is the way that comes to mind to describe it. Soul-sucking loss that feels unbearable. Like being in active labor where there is no going back but you don’t know when you will give birth or, at times, if it will ever be over. And yet even here, there is a choice. “This […]
Continue Reading“He was quiet but confident. He led from behind.” ~ Mom He led from behind. Like the rudder of a large ship that directs the ship where to go from behind. Leading by serving others. Calling others to a higher place by meeting them in their low ones. He never once posted about how great […]
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I finally got the app to check for unfollowers on Instagram, not because I want to police my account, but because I don’t want to keep pursuing people who are not interested in a two-way relationship. It is still weird to me that it is par for the course to follow someone just to get […]
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Proverbs 23:7 “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” I love to read. A couple years ago I read over three hundred books, last year I read maybe a couple hundred, and this year it has been much less. A big reason for the decline is that while I still love to […]
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They say, “live your truth,” but what if your truth is not based on the Truth, is as fickle as your feelings, and at the mercy of your perception at any given moment? Our perceptions are not always right, our feelings can lie, and any truth that is not rooted in the Truth is not […]
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For those who don’t know, in 2015 we sold our home in the city along with much of what we owned to move into our travel trailer, flip some houses, and eventually fulfill a dream of finding a home with some acreage in the country. In the meantime, we lived on a plot of mostly […]
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