We had two and a half child-free days this weekend, my husband and I. It was glorious. Like a second honeymoon, only without the beach and the newly-married learning curve. We did crazy first-year-of-marriage things like eating out and staying up too late and sleeping in and napping and shopping together. I wasn’t tired (imagine…

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I dig around in my Swiss Army backpack, looking for his passport. I can’t find it. I have mine, but not his. Panic tightens in my chest as my son tugs on me, whining that he is hungry. I look at the clock. We need to grab a meal before our flight leaves. We have…

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I want to color my hair aqua.   Not blue.   Not green.   Aquamarine.   I’ve daydreamed about it since I graduated from college.   Why?   Why indeed.   Because I’ve spent too much of my life trying to be just like everyone else.   But I’m not.   God made you and…

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She hadn’t been herself for at least a month. I’d been watching her for signs of suffering or new complications, anything that would give me a definitive signal that it was time. I got the sign on Saturday night – as she turned a corner I saw bright red staining the white fur under her…

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Each month Elizabeth Esther hosts a link- up for bloggers on the first Saturday of the month to share their favorite post from the previous month. This month we’re sharing posts from June 2012. My favorite post from June is this one, in which our church search begs the question, “What is the church, really?“…

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