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Why This Time Feels like Breathing

April 15, 2020

Can I share what may be an unpopular opinion, that may cause some, especially my extroverted friends, to respond with, “You shut your dirty mouth!”? I’m not necessarily eager for quarantine to end. Over the past several days, I have been picking back up my planner, which I use more as a journal, and filling in the blanks from the past several weeks, documenting what we’ve done and how we’ve been feeling. But first I had to fill in the couple of weeks before ...

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A Timely Sacrifice Or How My Family Survived Quarantine . . .

March 31, 2020

I said to my husband, "This is either going to be the worst time to stop watching television or the best time."

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Screen-Free Family Ideas

March 31, 2020

Sometimes taking a break from the usual distractions can be a challenge. What do we do now?! The following is a list of things our family has done (or wanted to try), but please don’t read it as a checklist – these are just ideas. Every family has their own rhythm and what makes them happy. The goal is to find what kinds of things your family actually enjoys doing that’s NOT in front of the television. Have your own ideas? Let’s hear ’em in the comments! Play a ...

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Of Being Human

January 24, 2020

I’ve tried not to keep it a secret lately that I have struggled. I have so many days where I see my children and I laugh with them and I try my best to serve them in love. But I also have those Ecclesiastical days where everything seems meaningless and I would so much rather huddle under my covers and just not be a part of this chaos that is life, and because I choose not to huddle, I meet my people living under the same roof with hostility and anger and frustration, not because of ...

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A Prayer for All Women on Mother’s Day

May 8, 2019

For all of us on Mother's Day, I pray for a moment in the arms of El Roi, the God Who Sees, as we are wrapped in His love, as we are grateful for his blessings, wherever they are found, as we mourn what we thought we would have and rejoice for what we do.