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Image from Instagram #lakercole @melissa_jordan4 Andy and I went to one of my favorite weddings ever. My friend Cathy Laker married Nate Cole and their wedding was perfect. Here’s why:… Read more A Favorite Wedding →
I’m glad you are here to celebrate! Share a link to your blog post below and/or use #celebratelu to share celebrations on Twitter. Check out the details here. Celebrate This… Read more CELEBRATE This Week: LXI →
This year I have been given the gift of friendship. I was caught in a trap of believing I wasn’t a good friend, that I didn’t really have friends, that… Read more Impossible Friendship →
Sometimes life feels like it is too much. We feel BLAH. Overwhelmed. Tired. Tattered. And it is. It is too much. I can’t fix all of the things that go… Read more Straight from My Notebook →
I haven’t ran for two weeks. A chest cold has grabbed a hold of me and even though I laced up my shoes and thought I could, a coughing spell… Read more A Habit of the Soul →
Rembrandt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons I have a hard time reading Genesis 22. The part Rembrandt depicts here, I can handle that part of the story. It’s the comforting part, the relief part, the it’s-all-okay part. It’s the whole story before the happy ending that’s hard for me. Genesis 22 is the story of God testing Abraham’s obedience. God says, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the… Read more A Test of Obedience →
I’ve sat down to write several times today and instead I’ve been rereading a lot of past blog posts that have to do with slowing down. I decided to curate them here, organized by date, according to title, and a snippet of the post. Celebrate This Week LII (11 October 2014): I celebrate slowing down. The world likes to tell me that I should do more. I’m learning this isn’t always a Truth. The world likes to tell me if I’m not doing everything, then I’m not enough. The Ketchup… Read more Slowing Down: A Curated List →
Whenever Andy and I make a major decision, we make sure we are in agreement. I wanted to pursue adoption long before Andy, but we didn’t move forward on that journey until we both agreed. He knew it was an affirmative to adopt the girls before I did. We didn’t say yes, though, until we both agreed. For Jay, we felt the call at the same time to pursue another adoption. Our house is another example. We searched for more than two years for a home to buy. It wasn’t… Read more Answered Prayers = Awe →
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