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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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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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
A friend of mine, Chuck was wearing a t-shirt he bought on his extended visit to Thailand. On the front the shirt were the words ” Same Same” and on the back of the shirt it read “but different”. It was a curious thought and I pondered it for a few moments when God began
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I’m not sure which ideas in my Christian walk I have wrestled with more than the concept of forgiveness. Growing up in church I’m sure I have heard hundreds of messages on it…each with an idea of how it is done and I found myself struggling to make it a reality in my life. Jesus
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I was on my morning walk through the neighborhoods where I live. The sun was young in the sky and the air was cool. I had just left the bus stop where my kiddos boarded their bus for school and the chug of exhaust from the diesel engine of their bus began to take me