I just returned from a week in California. The first part of that week was spent with the women of Oak Hills Church of Folsom, California, at their retreat on Lake Tahoe. It was three beautiful days of worship, testimonies and encouragement and I was able to share in the beauty of it all. When […]
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When my 30th birthday was around the corner, I remember this gnawing sense of dread. There were so many things I had hoped to accomplish by the time I was 30 that I just never finished and I already felt like a failure. It seemed like such an “old” milestone and my youth was gone.
This is the final chapter in my series on life in Dillingham. If you missed the previous two, you can click on the link to the right called “My Life In Chapters” and it will take you to the first two. Chapter 3 Jamin’s co-workers on the job had to leave when autumn set in.
I have been almost 37 years on a journey that has taken me places that I have had to struggle and pray myself through. It has been a beautiful journey full of love and laughter, friends and confidantes, playfulness and brokeness. I cry easier than most. I laugh whole-heartedly. I learn to trust and I
Empathy: The quality or process of entering fully, through one’s imagination, into another’s feelings or motives, into the meaning of a work of art, or the like. (The New Oxford American Dictionary) Empathy gets me in trouble sometimes. Like the time I visited my friend in the hospital after she had surgery for a ruptured
My son Jaron asked me today during our devotional: “Mom, if Jesus emptied himself of all His God powers when He came to earth, then how did he do miracles and stuff?” This was a great question and so I thought for a minute or two of how I would approach the answer, and I said:
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I know when God is talking to me. It has taken me much of my adult life to finally realize that He still speaks to me the same way He did when I was a kid. Perhaps I was expecting “bigger” ways of communication, or more pronounced since now I am grown and have so
I am the boisterous one of our marriage. I don’t mind standing in front of crowds and speaking or singing to the masses. I love large gatherings and don’t even mind making a fool of myself from time to time. Sometimes I am embarrasingly honest. Because I am often in the public eye, I look
You will find me here on this upholstered chair near the Tiffany lamp. It’s quiet here. It’s peaceful here. The front windows face out to the Cook Inlet and Mount Illiamna. It smells “new” in here because the wood hasn’t been weathered very long. I’m in my Mother-in-law’s Memorial Chapel. Before she passed away from
In the school of hard knocks is where relationships develop and mature. The school is always open and it will accept anyone…rich or poor, male or female, young or old; as long as we are willing to attend and hang in there to see the maturation process through. I find that where tensions and disappointments
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