Author: Jocelyn

  • Count Your Blessings

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    I sing old hymns to 2boys every time I put them to sleep. One of the hymns I’ve always sung, and my mom tells me it was one of my favorites from the time I was a very little girl, is Count Your Blessings. The chorus goes: Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count…

  • “Traditional” Family Roles by Choice, Not Ignorance

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    A little birdie once told me that behind my back someone called me and my husband, with much disdain, “extremely traditional,” particularly regarding our roles at home (my husband works full-time while I stay home full-time with 2boys). As the conversation progressed, the little birdie discovered that this person thought that we must be too…

  • Homosexuality & By Grace Through Faith

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    The sermon at church this morning was about sexuality; specifically, it was about homosexuality as our Presbyterian church faces denominational changes. The denominational changes are unimportant to me at this point. What I am utterly fascinated by is the collision of culture and the church, and, therefore, I couldn’t stop thinking all day about homosexuality,…

  • What We’re Looking for in a Church

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    We just moved. And so we’re searching for a new local church to attend, enjoy, give. As a side note, a cross-state move produces the most pleasant circumstances under which to search for a new church: you must give no reasons for leaving your old church besides “We moved” and you must give no reasons…

  • A Dose of Bonhoeffer for the Day

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  • Keeping Our Marriage Together

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    Yesterday my mom was going through her Christmas card list, and she told me how sad she felt because on it she found two couples who have divorced in the last year. I asked her if I knew them, and so she told me. They were both my age. With young children at home. Just…

  • Forever Christmas

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    Welcome, dear December. I know it’s tacky to leave your Christmas lights up all year-round (thank you to Gretchen Wilson for memorializing that for anyone who was so unenlightened – or should I say so terribly lightened all year). But – what about just the lights on my tree? I love my Christmas tree so…

  • Making Time to Blog

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    Hi friends! Well, Happy Thanksgiving Recovery Week. Right now I’m just sitting at my computer, staring intermittently between the WordPress screen and off into space. Both little boys are napping (at the same time – I know: miracle!). I’m trying to ignore the fact that my house is right now a complete disaster. I’m trying…

  • Date Night Kid Swap

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    It’s Friday! You know what that means…well, maybe you don’t, so I’m going to tell you. It’s Date Night Kid Swap! This is the best thing that has happened to our dating life since we’ve had kids. You should do it, too. If you don’t have kids yet, seriously log this away for future reference.…

  • Our Family Vision Statement

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    We have been blessed; now we want to go & be a blessing to others.                 At church lately, our pastor has been teaching out of the very first book of the Bible, Genesis. It’s some of the oldest history recorded, occurring around 4000 years ago. One of…