There but for the Grace of God go I. – John Bradford I was in Chicago recently. I used to live there when I was in my 20s. Now, in my 40s, I see it in a whole new light. I kept thinking of the quote above. I guess as we get older, we become
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Humbling
“It’s been a humbling experience.” My friend said this when she was telling me about something she was going through. Isn’t it all a humbling experience? If you are paying attention and you are gaining in wisdom, life is humbling. I looked up the word and one dictionary said it means, “Not proud or arrogant,
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True Beauty
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Have you ever met someone who “glows”? Someone who is really happy and vibrant and ALIVE? I know a woman like this. She is not always smiling and she is
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Create
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -Robert H. Schuller My friend and I were talking last night about our dreams. We are both in the midst of pursuing our passions. For me, it’s the blog and writing and for her, it’s something else creative. We were talking about the challenges
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Boys
I love boys…and men. I love their sense of wonder and their curiousity. I love their sense of adventure. I have two older brothers and I think their way of looking at things affected my way of looking at things. There isn’t a lot of room for drama with boys. There isn’t a lot of
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Expectations
Do what you do. This is what a friend told me. I told him that someone said I wasn’t “what she expected”. She said she had been reading my blog and she expected something different. Here we go again with the expectations… When I was in driver’s ed in high school, our teacher put the word
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“Watch me!”
We have been at the pool a lot lately. My son loves to go off the diving boards. He spends hours alternating between the low dive and the high dive. Each time he gets on the board, he looks over to me and gives me the thumbs up. When I give him the thumbs up,
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Sun
Ahhh…summer. We all feel better when the sun is shining. The sun nourishes us and encourages us to go outside. I have a love/hate relationship with the sun. If you read my blog regularly, you’ll remember that my daughter had a serious sunburn this year and I felt terrible about that. I have tremendous guilt
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Fight or Flight… or Faith?
In November of 1994, I was held up at gunpoint. I lived in the city. I was walking alone at night and a man came up with a gun and said “give me your bag”. I gave him my bag and then I ran as fast as I could. It changed everything. For months after