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The Lashes
Up before the sun, and on went the glue. “Hold still,” I chuckled nervously to my daughter, “I don’t want them to stick on crooked.” My seven-year-old squinted to catch my expression as the first false eye-lash cemented itself onto her eyelid. We both laughed as I covered up what I’d messed up with black…
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The Cubes (“Already Amazing,” by Holly Gerth, Book Review)
Do you ever have those moments with your children where you deliver sage advice, and then feel immediately guilty because you fail to receive and apply the same principles to your own life? (I’m raising my own hand.) Holly Gerth’s gift to sift through the cobwebs of applicable truth catered to the way God created…
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The Compassionate Quit (Book Review, “5 Habits of a Woman Who Doesn’t Quit,” by Nicki Koziarz)
“Be merciful to those who doubt.” (NIV) Jude 1:22 “I quit.” With every Kindergarten foot-stomp, adult miscommunication, seven-year old sassy stare, and unnerved “NO!- That’s not something we tell the dog ‘NO’ for,” I holler down the hallways of my home, I yearn a little bit more for a vacation away from all of them…
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The Purple Scar
If anything can trump everything, we are pushed into punishment. My stomach twisted in fret like it did on the way up the first hill of the tallest roller coaster in the world When I was ten-years-old. I wasn’t ready to face that fear then, nor was I prepared to hear the Elementary School Principal’s…
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The Friend Book
The biggest lesson I’ve learned while writing “Friends with Everyone” is to let go of fear and trust God’s purpose for my story.
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