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It’s retirement time (at the end of August). I’m almost 70 (next March). My first-born child turns 40 in less than a week (how can that be!)? I’m a grandmother. My goal (set longer ago than I want to admit) to re-energize my writing has not been accomplished. But I have 2 pages of ideas
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As most of you know, I walk alongside parents whose sons and daughters are on long term mission trips – generally 9 or 11 months with a few 3 and 4 month trips thrown in. We refer to them as “World Racers”. If parents will embrace it, it can be an amazing journey for them
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Many of you know that Advent is a season of the church year that I treasure. The roots of this come from my time in the Episcopal Church, in my 20s and 30s, and a rector who was insistent that we not celebrate too early. So we didn’t sing “Christmas” hymns and carols until Christmas.
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Relationships, friendships (close or just acquaintances), committees, small groups and any other combination of people can be messy and sometimes painful.. These combinations can be hard to establish and even harder to maintain. I’ve seen that clearly, time and time again. Our stories are unique combinations of high points and low points. We accomplish, live
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The last post of the migration from my old blog site to this new one. Written in April 0f 2022, almost 2 years after the previous one and over a year ago. From this point on I’ll be posting new material – but I write as I have things to say, not on any particular
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I’m just about to the end of reposting old blogs. But a few months into the Covid pandemic, in July of 2020, I wrote this. Although I am not a consistent blogger, this particular stretch of silence has reflected my inability to process in words the new territory we are in as individuals, as a
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Written in September 2019. There’s a recurring tension I encounter. It’s the tension of living in contentment and living with unfulfilled yearning. This isn’t unique to me. I know scripture praises learning to be content in all circumstances and sees godliness with contentment as great gain. But scripture also tells us to yearn for (hunger
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Originally written in April 2019, about 5 months after the end of cancer treatment. It’s been 5 months since my cancer treatments (radiation) ended. You’ve walked with me in this journey and it’s right for you to be updated. But to be honest, I keep waiting for something profound to share. And it’s not there.
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Written in October 2018 during radiation treatment for cancer. At this point I am somewhere between halfway and two-thirds of the way through my radiation treatments. And everyone was correct – I’m in and out of there in 15 minutes. Every day, Monday through Friday. This is by far easier than chemo would have been.
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September 2018 – original post. For those of you who know “cancer land” you’ll understand that I’m at the 5-year mark – past the diagnosis 5-year mark and getting close to the 5-year mark from the end of treatment. What is “just” good news and what makes something a gift? How do the desires of
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