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On Going Home

September 14, 2011

Sara skyping in with the (in)Courage writers last week at Hilton Head Island, SC

My mind and heart has been consumed with something else today. SomeONE else.
I tried to get dressed and take pictures of this beautiful belly I still have.
Of the life about to emerge.
But perhaps tomorrow for that, for today is for Sara.
One of my fellow (in)courage writers, a friend and dear one,
is about to go to [...]

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When Nothing Else Will Fix It

August 22, 2011

Where do we go
and what do we say
when nothing will fix it?
When there are no answers?
We hear the Earth groan in labor
and can feel the vibrations of the soil
crying out in expectation of Salvation…
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On Breathing

April 30, 2011

I struggled and limped and crawled my way through this last week to make it to week 19. It wasn’t how I thought it would be.
I imagined reaching week 19, now farther than we got with Mabel, and celebrating. Throwing a little party at home, dancing. Joy overflowing.
But the reality is that a new layer [...]

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On Learning To Suffer Well

April 11, 2011

I lay and feel this baby, 16 weeks along now, move and wiggle inside me. I cannot get enough of each and every womb-touch. I take it all in. I gulp and gulp and swallow this experience whole. I cannot. Get. Enough.
But also.
I remember.
Laying in a dark room in my bed with a completely silent [...]

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On Listening To The Right Voice

March 21, 2011

Let me tell you a story about fear.
There’s something that happens when you begin to feel a baby move inside you. The womb jumps, your spirit catches and you wonder.
You wonder if it’s really the baby – or actually just gas or muscle twitches or any of the myriad of other things it could be. [...]

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Punch Drunk Love

March 9, 2011

Why did those who had just received the Holy Spirit seem drunk?
Have you ever really thought about this?
I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something I was missing here.
That there was *more* I was missing.
I noticed God beginning to work on me. My heart in his hands, stripped of any preconceived anything, I followed [...]

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Bad Things Only Happen To Bad People

February 9, 2011

We stood in a courtroom and heard our state of financial affairs announced to the whole room.
The judge slammed hammer and we let breath out and came home to the home we’d lost to find that same lie being whispered over us like the smokey trail off the end of a cigarette.
*
“Things got worse. You [...]

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A Love Letter To My King

February 3, 2011

I feel your breath on my heart and it prompts pen to paper for this letter.
You know how I feel but it’s all the stronger straight from ink pot pulling out heart words, spilling here for You.
I can’t describe my gratitude, but I try.
Right now, I try.
Your love, this intangible and visceral feeling no [...]

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on story and the beauty

January 17, 2011

There’s something about story that makes us feel so safe, so not alone. Unique we become, while feeling the ties that bind. I read story to grow, I write story to heal.
Next week I’ll be attending the Blissdom blogging conference in Nashville. I’ll be speaking with Heather King and Cecily Kellogg in the writing [...]

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