I joined Ann Voskamp’s Gratitude Community at the beginning of 2011. On Mondays, we share what we’ve discovered as we’ve counted blessings throughout the week. Not only have I discovered more of life in each moment, I’ve found myself slowing down to soak up the beauty around me, things I have been running too fast…

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The first Saturday of each month, Elizabeth Esther hosts a blog-hop in which everyone can feature their favorite/most-popular/most controversial post from the previous month. I have written a lot of serious stuff this month (the most popular was probably I Can’t *Feel* Him) , but today I decided to highlight something a little more light-hearted,…

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I have seen some incredible photos taken during what they call “the blue hour.” I decided to sneak out early one morning this week and see what I could find. A few of the best for this week’s Wordless Wednesday.  

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Continuing my Monday practice of counting gifts, a few blessings from the past week. My thanks are mingled with tears… we received news that the dearly-loved husband and father of some of our friends passed away, and the very-young daughter and grand-daughter of another friend has begun her battle with a rare form of cancer.…

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It’s a sort-of wordless Wednesday today. As Bob Cratchit said in Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” we’ve been making rather merry. I thought I’d share some photo highlights. We partnered with our local school district to put on a benefit concert for the Find a Voice Fund, established in our daughter Elli’s memory. A barbershop…

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“All fear is but the notion that God’s love ends. Fear thinks God is finite and fear believes that there is not going to be enough and hasn’t counting one thousand gifts, endlessly counting gifts, exposed the lie at the heart of all fear? In God, blessings never end because God’s love for you never…

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