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  • San Francisco! Pre-Reading

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    I just found out that I get to go to San Francisco in September on a business trip with my little job!!! I’m incredibly astonished, honored, and grateful to have been asked to go. Ever since I found out I’m going, I’ve been deliciously reminded that: 1. I think it is so fun to go to…

  • We Are All Just Figuring It Out

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    In one small corner of my spiritual life, I have become involved in a more charismatic Christian movement than I’ve ever been involved in all my years (26!) of being a Christian. For those of you who grew up in the ultra-conservative, Bible-centered brand of Christianity in which I did, you’ll think that this is…

  • Copycat Health Nut Breakfast Cookies

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    I first had a cookie like this one at a little bakery at Pike Place in Seattle. (Sad, I can’t for the life of me find the name of the bakery.) I loved it so much — what’s not to like about a cookie for breakfast?! — that when I got home, I concocted the…

  • My Home Inspiration

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    We moved five months ago; I’m still nesting. This quote is such an inspiration to me — of what is most important about my home: making it a place where people feel comfortable and inspired to do all of these things!

  • Everyone Gets Older.

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    Even celebrities. Even supermodels. Even world leaders. Even wealthy people who could afford to buy something to resist time — if it existed. Everyone gets one day older every day. No one is exempt from the passage of time along with its woes and graces. It fascinates me that time remains still the one unopened mystery…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Holding onto Summer

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    Well, it’s September already. I can hardly believe it. Usually by this time of year I’m clamoring for apples & nutmeg, baking everything with pumpkin that can possibly be pumpkiny, getting pumped up for another season of Cougar football, and eyeing my favorite jeans & boots & cardigans, but somehow this week I’ve just been…