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Being a Closet Radical {UPDATED with June Adoration prayer printable}
Sometimes these ears of mine, they're clogged. I have little vignettes return to me, from time-to-time, of true friends who tried to be what friends are meant to be and I just couldn't hear them. Then. I can't wait to have tea with that old college housemate who...
When the Ones We Love Fail Us and What Their Failures Teach Us About Love {with May adoration printable}
Disclaimer: though the title could be, perhaps, inflammatory -- my sweet husband loves this post. It is written with permission ;). We sat at a local favorite and it was all new to me. I had flown in for a weekend interview and knew nothing of how pregnant this little...
Whose Linda Will You Be?
Mother's Day was for hiding. Some years it was behind my apron, fixing up a feast at home for my mother-in-law while Nate attended church, and other years it was underneath my covers, seeing this thin sheath between me and the world (which had what I wanted) as my...
Of My Own
"If Mommy gets a baby in her belly, will you send me back?" she asked him, with nervous eyes searching the floor, inhaling the shame of those words as if they were her indictment. It's often near the surface for this one -- not the year she was "chosen" and a mommy...
You Turn The Bitter Waters Sweet
[Note: I wrote this post in the fall (but never posted), long before we discovered our new development. He is ever working good in our hearts.] So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the...
What I Would Say To Her
He brought me tulips in winter and the card read: “To long, quiet love ... and new life.” They hadn’t been on my counter for 12 hours before he awoke to my sobs from the other room. Could it be? Could it really be? We found each other in the dark and wept a new kind...
You Said Her Name In That Way
She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!" She turned and said to Him,“Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher). - excerpt from John...
You Said Her Name In That Way {an Easter morning meditation}
She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!" She turned and said to Him,“Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher). - excerpt from John...
Your Marvelous Silence
Now Jesus stood before the governor. And the governor asked Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “It is as you say.” And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He answered nothing. Then Pilate said to Him, “Do You not...
A Death-Life Exchange, Even Before Your Death
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the...