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Overcoming Overwhelm: Practicing Passive & Active Patience, Week 8 of 8

March 3, 2019
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| Categories: Coaching Yourself, Encouragement, Thinking, Trusting God, Worry, Yielding and Waiting

Gardening is a form of suffering. Not for everyone who does it, but it is for me! My dad peruses seed catalogs like I used to peruse the Christmas toy catalogs as a child. I, on the other hand, feel a bit anxious at the sight of them in the mailbox. What will I plant? When will I plant? Where will I plant? Will I really follow through all summer long with the weeding that must be done? Those decisions are small in comparison to the long drawn out process of…

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Surrounded by Death…and Glory

October 3, 2012
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| Categories: Suffering

“I am surrounded by death.”  These are my words I brought out as my husband brought home a deer last night.  The first one of this season…and the first of a very long season of not getting one.  I tried to be happy for him but…I still felt sad when I saw the once wild doe now limp and lifeless.  I am happy for my hunter-gatherer man but…this week it is another death.

A sister in Christ went home last week to be with Jesus and one…

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