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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • Top Ten Posts of All Time
    • Legalism and Grace: How I Left the IFB Movement and Chose Grace
    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    Venturing out and finding beauty

    / April 8, 2009 / 4 Comments

    I sat there for a few minutes just basking in the beauty and warmth of the day. It was nice just to be able to sit and think, to pray, and meditate on…

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    Thoughts about homecoming…

    / April 1, 2009 / 0 Comments

    Today is April 1st… When most people think of April 1st, they think of April fools. But my first thoughts of April 1st are that it is the first day of a new…

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  • Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life

    How I celebrated our first anniversary when my husband was deployed

    / March 8, 2009 / 4 Comments

    It was our first anniversary, and my husband was on the other side of the world. I hadn’t seen him in four months. I pretty much spent all of the day in the…

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  • Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life

    One Year! (Our First Anniversary)

    / March 7, 2009 / 2 Comments

    I’ve been a wifey for a year now. Tomorrow is our first anniversary! It’s weird to me…(I know, a strange way to begin a blog post about an anniversary)…but it’s true. Because I…

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    What I learned about military life at the Fort Hood post office

    / February 28, 2009 / 0 Comments

    If anyone desires to know more about what military life is really like, I would recommend standing in line for a half hour at the on-post post office. What you can learn there…

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  • Family,  Miscellaneous

    SURPRISES!!!!!!

    / February 15, 2009 / 0 Comments

    I was awake for 20 hours yesterday, so I’m apologizing in advance if this post doesn’t make a lot of sense. : ) After working for 8 hours, I flew up here to…

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  • Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life

    Valentine’s Day Emotions

    / February 14, 2009 / 0 Comments

    Where do I begin? In the last 3 days I’ve gone from absolutely loving today, to absolutely hating it. Let me explain… On Thursday, I went to HEB to grab some groceries really…

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  • Military and Veteran Life

    Four…

    / February 7, 2009 / 0 Comments

    When I hear the word four, I think of so many things. Four can be an eternity, or the blink of an eye. Four more months (maybe) until hubby comes home. We still…

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  • Family,  Military and Veteran Life

    More Change

    / February 3, 2009 / 1 Comment

    God has been doing some marvelous things in my life, and teaching me some lessons, but he has used the medium of “change” to do so.

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    Change

    / January 25, 2009 / 0 Comments

    Our life is full of change. It seems like Russell’s schedule is like a ping-pong game. Back and forth. But what I’ve learned about ping-pong is that, even when the ball lands on…

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