“I feel sorry for Joe; he has to go home with you.” How is it that words spoken nearly 25…
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If My People: 2nd Edition
Welcome back, friends. I wonder—am I the only one who can sometimes find prayer exhausting? Often I’ll focus so much…
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The Year We Ate Thanksgiving Dinner on a Card Table
As if serving Thanksgiving Pig instead of Thanksgiving Turkey wasn’t breaking with tradition enough, this particular year we’d managed to…
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Relentless Faithfulness
Creeeak, creeeak, back and forth the rusty swing-set moaned as we listened to his unusual words. He’d gotten a new…
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Babies Don’t Keep
Laying warm clothes onto the bed, I notice your shirt. Black, the required color for work. You’re 20 now, and…how…
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Worthy Sacrifices of Ordinary Days
Lord. Have. Mercy. Inhale annnnd exhale. Dirty dishes on every counter. Spilled tea on un-swept floors. A battlefield of…
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Tomorrow’s Yesterday
Exhausted, I stopped to catch my breath; the distance that I’d traveled was significant. I recognized the path; it had…
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1971 Heart Street
Petite, wide-eyed, spirited – she’s made herself at home, this little girl. Hers is a spacious apartment, filled with floor…
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Twenty Octobers
Twenty Octobers ago I said, “I do.” Like a wind-chased leaf, memories of that overcast autumn day in 1992 skip farther…
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