When it comes to important life decisions, I doubt that there is one much more important than deciding who to marry.  Ever since our kids were little, we’ve been praying for the people they would be marrying.  Above all we’ve prayed that they would be Godly, committed Christians, and that they would be hard-working,...
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I have to tell you about a book that I bought just because it caught my imagination. The book is called Sacred Influence: How God Uses Wives to Shape the Souls of Their Husbands.  It focuses on what happens in a marriage if a woman will choose to honor her husband as the Bible...
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For the past two evenings John and I have had time to ourselves, thanks to vacation Bible school and the fact that the only solitary thing I was asked to do for it this year was to bring a few pounds of grapes.    (Hip hip hooray!  And thank you to all the wonderful teachers,...
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When we first moved to our place in the country, the landscaping consisted of a hillside full of weeds, a good-sized rock pile, and a bedraggled wild rose that still today ekes out a living on our ditch bank. We dreamed of trees, huge ones, shady and rustling in the wind.  So whenever we...
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I’ve been rassling a post for more than a week, mostly at bedtime. Each night after working it over for a good long while, sure it is on the brink of done, I decide I still haven’t done it justice, and it still isn’t quite ready to be tossed out to the world. And...
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We stand in a crowd at a banquet, my husband and I.  Dinner is done and folk dancing is a-swirl in the center of the room.  We consider dancing, but given our lack of familiarity with folk dancing, we decide we’ll have more fun simply watching our son and his friends.  I take pictures...
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Last Valentine’s Day was definitely one of the loveliest Valentine’s Days in my life:  our oldest daughter Amanda married her Ben.  But part of John’s and my love story also happened on Valentine’s Day.   Here’s our story for those of you who haven’t read it yet. Part 1 | Part 2 |Part 3 Part...
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I call him at the tail end of his shift at work. “Wanna meet me at Pier One?” “Sure!” he says, a smile in his voice at my surprise invitation. He got me a gift card for Christmas and he’s been wanting to take me to spend it.  This evening most of the kids...
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Just before Christmas while paging through my faithful old address book to address Christmas cards, I arrived at my sister Rebekah’s page. She has a whole page devoted to her, a written monument to a life full of activity. Adventure. Moving. Sometimes just across town. Sometimes across the country. Each step on her life-adventure...
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This evening I found myself chuckling over this post from Big Mama. If you don’t read her blog, you really should– she is one of the funniest bloggers I know. And my story will make more sense if you go read that post. (Go, OK? I’ll be here when you get back!) In the...
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