ode to the pee-pie
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As I sat sniffling in my bathtub yet again last night, I berated myself for just how ludicrous this really is. I should …
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cats and other metaphors
Sorry to have been a stranger, dear reader, but life has been happening. And by happening, I mean imploding in small bits all around and inside of me, making it very difficult to sign on and …
Read More →good friday
Good Friday
Who am I, that you’d suffer and die
That your innocent blood would let
So that I’d be redeemed and now be free
To be the person I am not yet
The nails that …
Read More →yet another obsession of mine
I love – and I mean crazy-love – thunderstorms. I am a self-diagnosed Doppler Dork & Storm Stalking Psycho. I don’t know if it is the danger or the drama or what, but nearly nothing …
Read More →40 days
Lent is still kind of new and confusing to me. Every year when it arrives, I have to go google it and try to re-understand the history behind the custom so I can try to wrap my brain around it a …
Read More →faves
I know this is Valentine’s Day and I realize it makes me a bit of a curmudgeon to not write some touchy-feely-sappy piece about how love makes the world go ’round. It seems to be …
Read More →scaredy-cat
I always hated being the new kid. I never liked that vulnerable and exposed feeling of standing there in front of a new class, book bag in hand and eyes on the floor, knowing the …
Read More →silver
Refine me as silver, Lord. Make me your own
Mold me and shape me from your righteous throne
Jesus, my Savior, my trust is in you
To take this old sinner and make something new
Without you, …
redeemed
I love all the new beginnings God offers us. But I hadn’t spent much time studying “The Beginning” until now. Recently (and quite accidentally,) I have found myself smack dab in the middle of a huge and …
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We all love a happy ending, don’t we? Our world is rich with amazing books and stories and songs and films. We love their brutal battles and their twisty plots. We love their valiant victories, hard-learned lessons, …
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