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The other day someone questioned my motives for doing a small thing.  I intended kindness.  The person saw interference.  I felt terrible.  It was nothing earth-shattering, nothing (as my mom is fond of saying) that affected anyone’s salvation. But the comment stung, and my heart was burdened. Could the person be right?  Then...
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Deuteronomy 12:7
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Last night when talk turned to broken-bone stories,  I told the story of falling off a horse and breaking my arm 8 years ago.  Three months of sitting in a recliner with a propped arm waiting to ‘heal’ culminated in a surgery to place a plate in my arm.  The day after the surgery,...
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I went to Goodwill a week or two ago.   My big boys needed cargo shorts, and I try to always check thrift stores before I buy new.  Twenty minutes of browsing netted us several pairs of shorts, plus jeans, playing cards, and even kitchen items for my daughter who’s getting an apartment with...
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I’ve noticed that the most frustrating moments of parenting tend to come when I’m not seeing progress, when I’m addressing the same issue for the 6th time or the 12th time or the 27th time, when it seems a child isn’t listening or isn’t learning or isn’t thinking. At times like those, my...
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