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Renaissance: Languages of Loooooove
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Right now at church we're in this series called " The Language of Love. It's based on Dr. Gary Chapman's bestselling book " The 5 Love Languages. When I read this book about 5 years ago, it really blew my mind. Somehow I had gone through life with the idea that everyone either was like me, or should be trying to be like me. Not sure how that happened, but as you can probably imagine, life didn't let me retain the point of view too far into adulthood. So if you're feeling up to it...
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Renaissance: December 2012
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Thursday, December 13, 2012. That came to mind as we are preparing for last week's sermon on Skepticism. I had a couple ideas of how this might look as a video. This was actually my "plan B" for the visual, but I really like the way it turned out. I'll save the "plan A" concept for another piece, I guess. I made the puzzle here. Shot the video with the 5D (thank you, Rhonda Ballard/ Sinatra. For being so perfect in one take! Thursday, December 13, 2012. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Orchard Musings: God Light in a Gilded Cage
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Ramblings of a Farm girl, mostly for her own amusement. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. God Light in a Gilded Cage. I've heard a child named this "God light.". I like that. There's a good reminder of the. God-light shining on our little corner of the world right now. God light is good stuff to feel the presence of when you're feeling a bit like this drippy bird, just clinging to a twig in a deluge, trying your best to keep a few dry feathers. But all the while, still knowing that at least you've still got wings.
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Renaissance: Warped
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Saturday, May 7, 2011. I'm SLOWLY making my way through the gospels, and a little while ago I read this passage in John. It's chapter 8. Click here. To read the whole passage in context. The verses I want to call out are 49-52. Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”. So I had to ask myself, when was the last time I did just that thi...
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The Heavens Declare: March 2010
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The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. Psalm 19: 1-4. Sunday, March 28, 2010. Socialism.or the Word in Action? Talks about his deceased mother, who died because she had no insurance and could not afford healthcare. Agree with EVERY SINGLE ONE of ...
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Breaking Up is Hard to Do | A DIFFERENT STORY
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Breaking Up is Hard to Do. It’s not you, it’s me. That’s what I keep telling my blog. I don’t want it to feel bad. But the truth is, we need to break up. It’s time for me to move out. Writing here has felt complicated to me the last couple of years. I don’t have good words to explain that, and maybe you don’t need me to. And so it is my writing here has waned. I’ve taken it off-site. Which has revitalized me in many, many ways, but has made it difficult to come home at night to. Some of you will prefer m...
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Renaissance: The Hardest Part
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Saturday, August 27, 2011. But as I said, that's the part that hurts so bad. It hurts to see someone you love making choices that you know will scar them at the very least, and have the potential. To destroy them and people around them. You can talk to them. You can try to get through to them. You can come along side them. You can do all that stuff and still have to stand by and bite your lip and wipe your eyes as they plunge ahead. Besides, you can radio me while I'm up there if you're so worried. K?
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Renaissance: The War is Over
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Thursday, May 26, 2011. The War is Over. Four years. It's an entire presidential term. An entire college career. It's the space that Olympians have to wait for another shot. For some people, four years can be an eternity. For others, I'm sure it flies by. Yesterday marked a four-year anniversary for me. Not one that I celebrated, or even commemorated, but one that I'm keenly aware of. Now, finally, after all this time, I feel like I'm at peace. V-J(eff) day! Now I'm not rolling out a big huge banner that...
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Love Adopted
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Kimani and Masha’s IEP Meetings — The. The Bad and the Ugly. May 28, 2014. We just got back from our amazing vacation in Costa Rica, and that is what I wish I was writing about this morning but instead I am already fully immersed in the stresses of our daily life. Yesterday we had back-to-back IEP meetings for Kimani and Masha. We walked out of both meetings feeling unsure […]. The Bad and the Ugly’. Autumn’s IEP for Kindergarten. May 8, 2014. April 9, 2014. Testing Masha—Why the Results Matter. Masha wi...
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Orchard Musings: If You Give A Mom A Summer Vacation Day...
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Ramblings of a Farm girl, mostly for her own amusement. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. If You Give A Mom A Summer Vacation Day. If you give a mom a summer vacation day, she's going to draw a lot of terrible pictures to illustrate it. And share them. If you give a mom a summer vacation day,. She's going to stumble out of bed. Like a zombie after staying up too late because. The sky was awake until 9:00. She's going to want a coffee. Remembering that she harasses her husband to. So she'll turn to unload it. And sh...
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