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Before You Do Stuff
After 12 hours of driving from the middle of Wyoming to our home that almost bumps into Canada, we walked in the door to the most horrific grinding motor sound coming from upstairs. I dropped...
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A Forgotten Place of Reward
Six or seven times, she told me. That’s how often she would got up every night to help her mother who has dementia. She said it with a smile, as if it were a privilege and not a burden. Then there was...
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The Crazy Life of Obeying God
I’m picturing him bending over to come out of the crawlspace, suitcase in tow. And his wife is all, What in the world are you doing? We’re moving, Abram says. They move –the whole kit and caboodle....
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Happy (Internal) Labor Day!
We spent hours learning about quality assessment, and I thought it was so FUN, which I’m pretty sure is weird. I love being with teachers. When we took breaks and had lunch, do you know what we talked...
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Are You Afraid To Follow God?
He had planned to go fishing. But while I loaded the dishwasher he poured coffee and said, What are you gonna do today? I said something about working on something. We could go kayaking, he said. I...
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For Those Who Want What Is Pleasant
There’s a whole bag of Snickers in my drawer, for when you all finish these verb folders, I said. Bribery is awesome. It appears they are going to die when I ask them to write the conjugations of 50...
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Jesus And The Hunger inside You
Here’s a great piece of advice for you to tuck away: It is a bad idea to fast and then, in the middle of the fast, decide to start reading the book called Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life...
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The Best Way to Gain Self-Control
Husbands are grown boys, you know, and boys need to find out what makes you crazy and do it. Just to see you be crazy. If I had known this, I never would have let on that I don’t like the...
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The Bible in Your Everyday, Crazy Life
In a grand show of irony, it was the teachers at my school who took the first test this year. A hard one. Thursday was the first day of school. On Friday the computer server went down. But let me take...
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What If You Say Yes?
I love her because she taught me how to put on nylons when I was in middle school and because she has shown me how to enjoy knowing Jesus. Just back from Kenya on a short-term trip to work in a...
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