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When ‘Someday’ Becomes ‘I Did It

November 10, 2025 3 Comments

With God’s help and the support and encouragement from my husband, family and friends, I finally published a book. It’s a short, funny children’s book based on a poem that I wrote and posted right here, many years ago. It’s titled, “If I Were a Turkey“ I’ve learned that sometimes you just need to finish […]

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How Love and Faith Rekindled My Creativity

November 7, 2025 8 Comments

My last post was back in 2021, and somewhere along the way, life took a few turns. For a while, I lost the spark for writing. The words just wouldn’t come. But here we are in 2025, and I’m back, heart full and pen in hand, ready to share new thoughts and stories. This year […]

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Tap, tap, tap

May 18, 2021 4 Comments

At times, it feels like God isn’t listening, the heavens are brass, there is a wall that seemingly no amount of prayer or praise can penetrate. Of course, I know that this is when faith comes in. This is where I am supposed to press in, to trust and wait patiently. But my human need […]

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Desperate

January 23, 2021 5 Comments

Jesus, You were spit on, ridiculed, beaten, called a drunkard, a glutton and a liar. You were betrayed by many including those close to you. You beheld the hatred, the depravity, the gross reality of the state of the human heart. You were hung on a cross between ungodly men, mocked and provoked. Yet you […]

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Life Long Love

May 10, 2020 4 Comments

Ah, Motherhood. What can I say that hasn’t already been said? To quote Dickens, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. You may think that an odd comparison, unless you are a mother. If you are a mother, it resonates deep in your soul. Two of the best days of […]

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Between Seasons

March 9, 2020 3 Comments

Spring is trying to break forth but winter stubbornly holds her back blowing a north wind with all his strength. Yet I see buds and blossoms and the birdsong is different. They know change is coming and they gloriously and expectantly herald its arrival. The eerie wind shrieks and hisses in response as if trying […]

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Descent

October 6, 2019 2 Comments

Oh, let the wind blow cried the little leaf While I hold on tight to this big oak tree It’s not quite my time to make the journey down Not until another hue of color I see I’ll hang here and listen to the wind in the trees And enjoy the crispness of an autumn […]

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Misguided persistence

September 22, 2019 2 Comments

“Stop nagging!” We have all heard it and we have may have said it to someone else. If you look in Webster, the definition is “persistently annoying or finding fault with someone”. When I think about nagging, I am reminded of summer evenings, sitting outside trying to relax while being persistently and relentlessly pursed by […]

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One step forward

May 27, 2019 4 Comments

Outside this morning, I remember being on my knees, in the dirt, pulling weeds. I felt the slight pull from my incision site as I shifted positions and I was reminded how far I have come in just a few short weeks. Mind you, as they passed, they felt like long grueling weeks. Overwhelmed with […]

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It really will be okay

March 17, 2019 12 Comments

Sometimes I forget that spring is coming. Everything seems dry and dead and there is barely any color. Locked in the bathroom, asking God why, I wonder if He really heard all of those silent, heartbroken pleas, the soulful dew faced prayers and the loud proclamations made, while pacing back and forth, my confident steps […]

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