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My Theme Song
I spent the last four days at a wonderful women’s retreat. So, instead of a blog post, I have a song for you. This is my favorite song right now; it’s literally my theme song. 🙂 Yesterday at the conference I was listening to it with headphones down by the lake during quiet time. I didn’t think anyone was around so I was standing there in the warm spring sun, with my eyes shut, my arms raised, silently mouthing the words. It was so beautiful that I listened to it twice. When I opened my eyes, there were two people in a canoe paddling by staring at me. Well that’s…
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Life Is Adventure
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God Does Not Care About Your Jenga Blocks
A couple of weeks ago, I was writing in my journal during my morning “Jesus time”, wrestling through the way we view our relationship with God. “We don’t understand that it’s not about being good and doing the right things…it’s about knowing Jesus. Ha! It’s like we aren’t even playing the same game as You, God. We’re playing Jenga, but You’re playing Hide-n-Seek..” We are playing Jenga, but God is playing Hide-n-Seek I’m so tired of the way performance based thinking has hijacked Christianity! It’s not just people like me, raised in extreme legalism…it’s spread throughout the whole church. There we are, trying to build our Jenga towers, poking out…
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Why I love “The Shack” – A Brief Review
Last Friday night, my husband and I joined a crowd of snuffling, shaking, teary eyed strangers watching The Shack. I Â purposefully didn’t wear mascara and brought lots of Kleenex, but halfway through the movie I just gave up and let the tears flow. I’m a crier, and normally I feel a bit self-conscious blubbering in a public theater; but on Friday night, I was just one of the bunch. With my husband silently shaking to my right and an unknown man in his 50’s sobbing to my left, I felt right at home. What I loved about The Shack: I LOVE that God is not in a box. Watching The…
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Married to Your Best Friend…
It’s my fault. If I planned better, I would actually schedule a massage with one of my favorite female therapists. But, I usually wait until I’m in desperate pain and then I get whoever happens to be available the morning of my chiropractic appointment. That’s how I ended up, face down, talking with my young male masseuse about relationships and his new girlfriend. After finding out I was married, he wanted to know for how long. At the time it was just over eight years. I will never forget his response. “Wow!! (pause) You must be one of those people who is really into commitment!” Yup! That’d be me…one of…
