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A Gentle Identity Reminder

June 27, 2013
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Heartbreaking mommy moment #?:  “Mommy, I’m a dork.”

So we have a talk about words.

We talk about who we most truly are.  How we can believe what God says instead of what our feelings say.

In the course of any given week, it is possible for me to hear many self-demeaning statements and other-demeaning statements.   At each little league baseball game this summer I heard a mom yell demeaning things at her son.  I read of others being demeaned or demeaning themselves on Facebook almost daily.  I find it impossible to find a show on…

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Amazed at Adoption

October 8, 2012
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“I have my forever home!  I have been adopted!”  I can just imagine what my friend’s adopted daughter was thinking on her way to the U.S. after leaving the Ukraine and at least four years of being an orphan.  I remember the long years of waiting with my friend…the praying and the crying…the wondering of who it would be.

This would’ve been my exclamation too upon becoming a Christian…but I didn’t really understand at that point all of my new realities…

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Tidbit Tuesday…The Absurdity of Living in Squalor

September 25, 2012
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There once was a woman named Ida Mayfield Wood…perhaps you’ve heard of her.  She lived in squalor in a couple of rooms at New York’s Herald Square Hotel.  By the time of her death in 1932, Ida had hoarded nearly $1 million in cash in her hotel room.  The money was stuffed in pots and pans.  A diamond necklace was even found inside a Cracker Jack box.

Ida was found to have $10,000 in cash sealed around her  waist.

For some reason her story has stuck with me since I first heard it and she has come to mind several times in…

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Do you not know what is true of you in Christ?

June 22, 2012
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 Do you not know what is true of you in Christ?

The shards of a broken life fell on me cutting me and causing me to bleed. She sat easily in front of me as if to not hide a thing, gripped the sides of the chair as if to hold on for her life, and she truly did not hide a thing. All of it open bare and out. She took bricks off of her back one by one. Heavy tears flowed for each heavy chapter.

A sister in Christ’s life story has touched me…

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