encouragement for every season of life
I’m tap tap taping on my keyboard inside the Starbucks at Target when a dad carrying two infant carriers, one in each hand like barbells, comes in to sit at the table next to me. The carriers are draped with matching sky-blue blankets, and I smile knowing it’s likely twin boys snugged under them. Since I’m also the mama of…
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I’m sitting here savoring the last bite of my velvety smooth cinnamon roll (delicious rolls a result of the pioneer woman’s easy to follow recipe rather than any of my own baking skillz). As I lick the butter and powdered sugar frosting off my fingers, I can’t help but be thankful it isn’t this time last week. While I usually…
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Today, I googled “men’s jeans with a 38 inch inseam.” And after traveling the superhighways of the internet for a good while, I finally reached the desired destination thanks to the Levi’s website. Bravo, Levi’s 505 blues, for coming through for my long-limbed, tree-man son. Kids keep on growin’ on, especially when we’re not looking. If yours are 18 like…
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I sit at the Thanksgiving table of my in-laws, rub my full-to-the-brim middle and swear I won’t eat another bite till Christmas. Even as I say it, I swirl my fork on my dessert plate to catch the last salty-sweetness of pecan pie. While my husband talks with his brother Andy about how their alma mater, Oklahoma State, fared this…
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It was a bright July morning in London this past summer when my husband, kids and I stepped out of our Air B&B flat to the sun-streaked pathway outside. As we started our walk toward South Kensington, we met up with a woman living in another flat down the row from ours. She said hello to us and kindly commented…
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When the news rolled in about the shootings in Las Vegas early Monday, I immediately prayed for the Lord to be close to those who had faced unimaginable horror. And after my sons left for school, my daughter and I climbed in my car, driving down pine-lined roads toward her school. We listened to radio reports of the events, both…
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If I asked you the following questions, what would be your answer? In what way do you struggle to fit in? What is one thing about you that makes it difficult for you to fit in with those around you? If you had asked me the second question in junior high, the answer would have rolled off my tongue before you…
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I glance at my phone just in time to see the lit-up news teaser, and once again I can’t believe what it relays. I tap the link and read the article, sickened to my core by hateful words and pixels. “Oh Lord, may Your Kingdom come,” I pray out loud. It is good to dwell in unity, but how heartbreaking…
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Hello dear ones! I’ve missed you more than Earl Grey tea and scones with orange marmalade. Oh yes I have. We’ve had such rainy days here in Colorado Springs, so a hot cup of Earl Grey sounds doubly good right now. We arrived home from our vacation mid-July, and I’m still reveling in the memories. Y’all, we had such a…
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This July marks seven years we’ve lived in Colorado, almost twice as long as I’ve lived anywhere as a married woman. Parts of the Centennial State certainly feel like home: a lovely church family, colorful cowboy boots, abundant sunshine and established friendships for our whole family. There are a few parts that don’t feel like home, like the lack of prolific deciduous…
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A short while ago, I met the Most Perky Panera Employee ever. Her name tag read Anna, and she sported a cute pixie cut that made her Panera apron look like something from a Paris runway. As she took my order, her words bounced throughout the store like a pep squad leader’s, cheerful and bright. Given the late evening time, I wondered…
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Well, let me just say amen and glory hallelujah because summer break. is. here. When my kids were young, I didn’t look forward to summer the same way I do now. My husband spent so much time away during those years (#militarywife), summertime meant I had longer seasons of solo parenting. During my twin sons’ Kindergarten school year, I contemplated spending the…
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