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Maybe it’s the fact that I didn’t get anywhere near enough sleep last night. Maybe it’s because my body hurts and I’m aching even worse than usual. Or perhaps it’s because I’m an empath and when I say I feel for you, I REALLY feel for you. Maybe it’s all of the above; I don’t
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“I spent all of my childhood pretending I was off somewhere else… off with you on one of your adventures! My own adventure turned out to be quite different.” This is a line from one of my favorite movies, The Lord of the Rings. Frodo Baggins, a young hobbit is talking to his uncle Bilbo,
One morning several years ago, while getting dressed after taking my shower, I heard the toilet on my daughter’s Barbie doll house flush. Now considering the fact that it was very early and she was still sleeping soundly when I got into the shower I was pretty certain that it was not her flushing the
Several years ago, my daughter was working on cleaning her room and had come to give me the official “it’s clean now” report, which was my cue to go check her room. Almost always, without fail, I would have to then point out all the things scattered on the floor, sticking out from under the
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I grew up listening to my grandfather tell me stories of the past. He was influential in instilling in me a love for a good story, and I learned a lot from him about the importance of telling the story well. No matter how many times he told me the stories of his youth, I
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I was recently reading Ann Voskamp’s devotional companion to her book One Thousand Gifts and she talked about how music is made on a guitar by plucking the string. She explained that “Music is made in stress” and tells how a guitar string has to be moved and pulled tight before it can release music.
I once spent some time with a beautiful lady never dreaming that it was her last day on earth. I had no idea that I would not see her again when I left that day; I only knew she was having a good day. She had smiled at me when I came in and started
Several years ago, my daughter got several new pairs of pants. Since she is like her mother, she is height challenged. All of her pants needed to be hemmed. Thankfully, my Aunt Shirley was able to help us out and came to measure my daughter to know how to hem them. She brought a stepping
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I recently reread The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, which I highly recommend reading if you have not already done so. She says a lot of great things in her book and I have a lot of things underlined in it, but something new stood out to me as I read it this time.
I once spent some time talking to a cousin of mine about our ancestors and where they came from. It is a subject that I have always found fascinating, and he was a wealth of information. He has spent a lot of time researching our family history and I was glad to be able to
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