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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Redemption Stories

    In the Hands of the Master Builder: Faith Deconstruction (and Reconstruction)

    / September 25, 2023 / 0 Comments

    Initially, my "deconstruction" may have started with dismantling and throwing out things I felt didn't fit the structure I was trying to build. Thankfully, and but by the grace of God, I quickly…

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  • Ezra,  Special Needs Parenting

    K’Nex: the one toy that keeps my ADHD kid focused for HOURS

    / January 7, 2018 / 2 Comments

    Ezra received his first set of K’Nex from his grandparents for Christmas 2016, when he was six years old. They went over really great. Not. While he was generally intrigued by them, the…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Little Brother

    This is how we survived the summer

    / September 1, 2016 / 1 Comment

    At the beginning of the summer, I wrote a blog post about Summer Survival. In that post, I talked about the pull of the romanticized notion of letting kids be bored during the…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Family,  Independence Day

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 08.12.14

    / August 12, 2014

    And I want you to know that somewhere, in that mess you look at and call life, there is beauty there too. Grasp it. Hold onto it. Share it. Because it is your…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Messy Faith,  Travel

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 07.08.14

    / July 8, 2014 / 2 Comments

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 07.08.14

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    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 10.02.13 {AKA what life has been like for the last two months}

    / October 2, 2013 / 6 Comments

    Finding God's beauty in spite of our messy, everyday life. A lengthly post of pictures and updates from August and September 2013.

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