I was still reeling from three years of hurricane force trauma that had hit our family so unexpectedly, trying to find my way through the blanket of doubt that settled on me like a fog, feeling like I was losing my mind when there came another blow. One of my dearest friends who had prayed […]
My families favorite place to go here in Anchorage is the used book store in town called Title Wave. It’s a huge store with shelves and shelves of classics and novels, Biographies and cookbooks and everything in between. We love this place. We usually leave with armloads of new reads and can barely get in
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The sun came up this morning. Did you hear it? A message was woven into the fabric of creation in the moments of it’s birth. Some of creation sings it. Some of creation shouts it, while some of creation whispers it in sounds so quiet that you have to be still to hear it. With
I just had to laugh! Jamin and I were reading to our children the story of Samson the other day. We started at the beginning of his story in Judges 13 where an angel appears to the barren wife of Manoah to tell her that she is going to have a son. When Manoah’s wife
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One of my favorite quotes used to be “God is never late, but He sure misses a lot of opportunities to be early.” This quote seems to correlate with many realities in my life. “If only He had not allowed…” “I wish I knew then what I know now….” are things I have been known
I don’t know where all the images came from. Some I can pinpoint and some I can’t. Perhaps I had a very creative imagination, but from my earliest child memories come scenarios of fear. These pictures in my mind haunted me from my pre-school years and followed me well into adulthood. I have never
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This month of February will mark the 14th anniversary of our wedding. Jamin and I, in those fourteen years have started six or more businesses (I can’t remember), had four children–two girls, and two boys, lived in six or more cities and made a home in various types of dwellings. I must cite them now because they
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My husband Jamin and I left the theater where we watched the movie “Blind Side” and I have to say that the movie got me asking questions of life and philosophy. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the story is retold of a white family in Tennessee who becomes become legal guardians of a
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I received the recorded phone message from the principal of the elementary school where my three youngest kids attend that informed me of the school having been in lockdown yesterday due to police activity around the school. I was assured that all of the students were safe and that the event lasted about an hour.
It was going to be an easy procedure. Really, this was no big thing. I mean after all, I had given birth to three kids already in my short life and the pain of those births could never outweigh the slight prick of the needle that would numb the place where my mole was going