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The Restoration of All Things (Part 49)
We had decided to get married on May 24th. That meant that it would only be something like a week after the next semester before we would be sharing a dwelling place all by ourselves.Knowing that...
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For the first month or so of the new semester, I spent afternoons in the little house on the hill with Joseph and faithfully returned to the Hanwell's house in the evening, going back to Joe's house...
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Saturday came quietly and unassumingly. I woke up on the couch to gaze outside at one of the first warm, dewy mornings of Spring. This was the day of my meeting with Eddie, but first Kaylee was on her...
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That night after Eddie left, I was tooling around on Facebook, and I noticed Maggie was online on the chat feature.I felt compelled to say hi to her, hoping she wouldn't think I was crazy or some kind...
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About 2 weeks before our wedding, I had a conversation with the Hanwells. We finally talked about the fact that Joseph and I were essentially living together.I shouldn't have been doing that, but it...
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The Restoration of All Things (Part 54)
The week before my wedding finally arrived. My mom flew down early to help me work out the details. Things I never would have thought about. Like table clothes.Joseph and I were preparing for an...
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The Restoration of All Things (Part 55)
A few months prior to the wedding, when Joseph and I were in the thick of wedding planning and classes, there were a myriad of preposterous ideas tossed around.If there is one thing I've never been...
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The Restoration of All Things (Part 56)
That morning finally arrived. Star pulled me out of bed and insisted that I go find something to put in my stomach, so I sleepily stumbled out in the direction of the hotel lobby.The second we walked...
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There were two times in my life that I found it necessary to attempt to trick people into believing I was boy.The first was around age 7. I was a girl scout. I was a girl scout who longed to be a boy...
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It was a usual day in my 8 year old life. One sandwich-making experiment gone horribly wrong, one dark purple bruise rising on my shoulder from one attempt at shotgun target shooting with my dad, and...
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Longish ago and not so very far far away, I was in my early teenage-hood. This was back before I knew that being embarrassing around boys I found even remotely attractive would soon become a regular...
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The Passion of My Heart
I have debated whether or not to ever write a post like this. But it's been tumbling about in my head for ages and I think perhaps it will be good to just put it out into a tangible form where I can...
View ArticleSha Na Na
Sing to the Lord a new song; Sing to the Lord, all the earth. Psalm 96:1It wasn't even written as a "praise song". It was a silly song on an album that my best friend's 5 year old daughter adores by a...
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I read somewhere that shalom means so much more than simply peace instead of war. It means peace in our lives, in our homes, and in our spirits. It means safety, fullness, health, wholeness and an...
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This is what I keep seeing around Facebook:"I have to laugh at people who are against spanking. My mom sometimes smacked me when I was naughty.. . I didn't hate her.. I didn't have trust issues with...
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I was talking to my dearest friend just moments ago and I mentioned the trampoline my dad got my brother and I when we were kids, momentarily forgetting that said best friend would remember the thing....
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A dear friend of mine once told me of a dream she had.There was a babe in her house that she and her family were caring for. They were drawing little tattoos of adoration on the soles of his feet, and...
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When I hear or see someone threatening to violate the boundaries of one of my dear ones, I feel ready to suit up Joan of Arc style, mount a draft horse, and storm said violator's yard with a jousting...
View ArticleThank you, Danielson
I'd almost forgotten how much I love this song._____________________Did I step on your trumpetOr did I lumpLump them in with youI put your name on the ballot'Cause you should runThough you don't want...
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Worth It
Before I start to tell this story, I feel it imperative that I make one thing abundantly clear: I am passionately for natural childbirth, as our bodies are made and able to do.I had a perfect little...
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A friend of mine posted this on a forum that I frequent and I didn't want to lose it. Thank you for blowing my mind with your clever thoughts, Lindsay!_____________[Snip]I was discussing today's sermon...
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Adventures in Breastfeeding
Weeeeeeee!I will warn you ahead of time there will be breastfeeding photos in this post. If you don't wanna see 'em, theeeen... don't! :)Okay. So.Breastfeeding is oh so crazy important to me for a...
View ArticleOh My, Oh My, Oh Dinosaurs!
And by dinosaurs, I mean grace.Oh my God, grace.It seems that the greatest recurring theme in my life - the subject I am constantly watching for and dwelling on with hopes to obtain a deeper...
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A few days after Eddie and Maggie's visit, Joseph loped in from where he had been sitting, cross-legged, on the hood of my car outside. I heard the phone in his hand flip shut and turned to see that he...
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Marriage counseling with Genevieve and Jim was a natural outcropping of living with them. The weekly sit-down workbook sessions we were doing per Joe's dad's request were really only an addendum to the...
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