Personal and Spiritual Ramblings
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some self-observations about legalism
I was driving with a new friend back from the park, and we were discussing our religious backgrounds and some of the standards that we used to follow when we were growing up.…
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Dealing with online guilt, jealousy, and self-doubt
You aren't quite sure how to identify it, but you feel it. When your online friend announces she's switching to cloth diapers, entering a 5K, planning a home birth, sending off a book…
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“composing a beautiful existence that barely needs a savior”
"I impress the world with passionate, visible morality while avoiding God altogether. There is something to humility that is costly...something resembling humiliation...an outright declaration of the wreck we are without God rather than…
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When you see Lightning McQueen in yourself
“All he cared about was winning the big race and becoming famous.” That’s the line out of the board-book version of Cars I just read to my son. And it made me wince.
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Final thoughts on my husband’s six years in the Army
It’s within an hour of midnight on the evening of our last official day in the Army. I just finished watching about three straight hours of science fiction television, and even at the…
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Jump {Five Minute Friday}
Today I am participating in a weekly feature on lisajobaker.com called Five Minute Fridays. Bloggers are given a writing prompt (topic) and told to write for *five minutes. “No *editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.” Today’s…
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Here {Five Minute Friday}
I'm here, in my new hometown. I have the keys to my new home on my key ring. I've checked my new mailbox twice. I'm here. I've been making excuses to visit my…
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Home {Five Minute Friday}
Today I am participating in a weekly feature on lisajobaker.com called Five Minute Fridays. Bloggers are given a writing prompt (topic) and told to write for *five minutes. “No *editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.” Today’s…
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Earning God’s love
For four years of marriage, I based how good of a wife I was on my performance. ...I stopped singing and shook my head at the irony, as I realized that this problem…
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The importance of community in a Christian marriage
I wrote the following words about my husband and my marriage in a private message to two close friends of mine. “He has been getting on my nerves all day…” Around the New…
