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Ten Best Children’s Books About Vegetables
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Radical Living-Day 2
"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." NIV (1 Corinthians 10:31) "There's got to be more to life than this..." These words--spoken sixty years ago by a young woman with four children and a traveling husband-- reverberate...
Radical Living-Day 1
When I was a young woman--still in highschool--a beloved lady in my life accused, "You're getting to be a fanatic." I hadn't joined a group of extremists. I didn't lock myself to a chainlink fence and protest nuclear weapons. I didn't even promote a...
On Being a Grumpy Mom
My two younger children lay snuggled next to me in bed--feverish, sniffling, coughing, and talking in their sleep all through the night while the sounds of my teenager's favorite music drifted upstairs through the vent system. Boom! Boom! Boom! Hack! Hack! Hack! ...
Life as It Matters–With or Without Chocolate
My husband usually wakes me with a cup of coffee and a kiss, but his blue and gold office tie lay in the chair next to the bed. Yesterday, Dave caught the next flight to California where he's donned the alter-ego of Commander Kennington. As I usually do when he's...
Fiery Arrows
Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it’s all over but the shouting you’ll still be on your feet. Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation are more...
The Word for 2013
I've never been one to make New Year's resolutions. I guess I've always thought of it as something that seems mildly unimportant and easily dismissed--especially when a flourless chocolate torte in a pool of raspberry sauce looks tantalizingly delicious and I'm...
