Thankful Thursdays – Celebrating the Everyday Holy

Posted by linda on May 23, 2012 in Blog, Spiritual Disciplines | 4 comments God is inviting me to live with more gratitude in my daily life,  and I’d love to have you join me on the journey. This journey to have eyes opened to the holy all around me every day. This journey to grow ever more thankful for the big and little graces of God in my life. This journey to deepen my capacity for joy through my relationship with a good and generous God. How about it?...
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3 Lessons Mom Breathed Into My Life

Posted by linda on May 13, 2012 in Blog, Holidays & Events | 5 comments 1.  If you want to have a friend, you’ve got to be a friend.  Mom taught me that I can’t wait for someone else to make the first move – I need to be willing to reach out and take the first step in making a friend.  And I need to be the kind of friend that I want the other person to be for me.  If I want them to be available for “play dates” (or lunches, etc.),...
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Beauty In Brokenness

Posted by linda on May 10, 2012 in Blog | 2 comments   “But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us. “We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be...
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Purple Hair Transformation

Posted by linda on May 5, 2012 in Authenticity, Blog | 8 comments How did my 15-year-old celebrate May Day?  By dying his hair purple! Yes, my soft-spoken, mild-mannered son now has wild purple hair. And I love it! He is so confident in who he is that he feels the freedom to express his quirky sense of humor and not worry what anyone thinks. What a gift! I wish I’d felt the same way when I was 15. Nathan is on a journey to know himself – and to...
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Resisting the Tyranny of the Urgent

Posted by linda on May 1, 2012 in Blog, Spiritual Disciplines | 11 comments Messy house – check. Unfinished to-do list – check.   Guilt and exhaustion – check.  Need for Sabbath – check. As I finish writing this blog (on Sunday night), I’m acutely aware of the many things that are undone in my life.  But I’m also aware of my aching need to be undone by the Lord of the Sabbath.  I need Him to “un-do” the tangles of...
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Permission to Rest

Posted by linda on Apr 27, 2012 in Blog, Health & Weight | 10 comments Nearly six years ago, I crashed – big time. I’d been battling fatigue and ongoing sinus and throat infections for years.  I was being held together by caffeine, adrenaline, antibiotics, and homeopathic remedies.  But nothing was working anymore, and I simply fell apart physically. Finally, a doctor correctly diagnosed the underlying cause of my illnesses: Epstein Bar Syndrome, an...
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