There are childbirth classes, parenting classes, mothers of preschoolers groups, I found resources on sibling rivalry, setting limits, education, new baby adjustment, mannerschoresaggressionpotty traininghowtotalktoteensgraduationpartyplanning because that’s what life feels like….no punctuation to catch your breath. The thing is, I couldn’t find that helpful pamphlet on how not to feel all dizzy as you put your …
Oswald Chambers told me this this morning. “Once the Bible was just so many words to us; “clouds and darkness”. Then, suddenly the words become spirit and life because Jesus re-speaks them to us when our circumstances make the words new. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life- Jesus, …
I want to help. I really, really do. It makes my heart happy and I sing when I help. In fact, I’m probably at my happiest when I am helping. I’ve always seen myself as sort of a supporting beam. I look for ways to quietly slip into the structure and hold up it’s arms; …
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I’m on my way to Denver, to meet the new love of my life; Beatrice Haven Hollinger. I’m taking an airplane. I haven’t been on an airplane in over a year and I can taste excitement like an egg sandwich on sourdough with mustard. In other words, it’s a pungent and savory feeling. It’d be …
Sometimes I hear a word or a phrase and it jumps onto the canvas of my mind and paints a picture. This phrase, this “seller of purple” captivated me. What kind of woman gets that kind of description? Purple was the color of my notebook paper when I was 12, I was enthralled that my …