It’s time for the Saturday Evening Blog Post, hosted by my dear friend Elizabeth Esther. The first Saturday of each month we look back on the previous month and highlight our favorite post. When I looked back, I saw so much emotional raw writing. It has been a tough month here. I have loved each of…

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“Real or not real?” The lead characters in The Hunger Games resort to asking each other this as they try to sort out what really happened and what was poison-induced hallucination. “Real or not real?” I ask myself as I sit in the intensive care waiting room while our youngest undergoes a procedure. We spent…

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Songs express my heart so well when it’s a swirl of competing emotions. I love this song right now, because it speaks of so much more than a broken heart. It isn’t merely the words of an angry jilted lover. It mourns the tragedy and betrayal of the deliberate misuse of one’s power over another…

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Dear Scott, When I think about outside influences on our marriage, I think of everything outside the two of us. We have had many outside influences, but if I had to identify two of the most significant so far, I would point to Children’s Hospital and the church in which you served as an elder.…

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I scanned the faces in the terminal nervously, looking for a glimpse of the tiny little avatars that streamed by in my Twitter feed. We were about to spend a week with each other, and here was the moment of truth. So many were “well-known” online and I was no-one, and I wondered if I…

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The nurse explained, “He’s on the phone with the surgeon discussing the options. He’s concerned about the right side.” I frown. “I thought the issue was with the left side. I didn’t think he’d do anything anywhere else.” She paused. “I don’t know. He’s done all his measurements and they are concerned about the right…

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