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Living Love (& loving life): The Scream of the Suffering
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Thursday, September 18, 2014. The Scream of the Suffering. There is a scream that reverberates in the soul during suffering. Perhaps you have heard it in the whispered "Why's". Maybe it echoed in the deep, gasping breaths of someone who was hurting. But perhaps- perhaps you have felt it. Have heard it pounding in your head. Have had it shaking your insides desperate to get out. So very often we push it down in shame, in "proper", in guilt, in frustration, in confusion. There is such a place. You see, in ...
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Living Love (& loving life): It changed our life...
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Friday, March 14, 2014. It changed our life. So this will probably be the hardest post I've written so far. It's going to go places I never in my craziest nightmares would have thought we would be. And third, well you probably already know what that is but your prayers for our family have been a comfort, and we believe they have not been wasted. If you want to continue in those we would be grateful! There is no way this is really happening to us." kind-of numb. Ryan and I just remained quiet. Ryan and I ...
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Living Love (& loving life): December 2013
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013. On our Christmas card this year we included a beautiful quote I found by Hamilton Wright Mabie (Don't ask me who he is, just liked the quote! Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy on love.". Don't you just love that? My favorite part is the use of the word "conspiracy". It makes me imagine an underground movement bent on secretly transforming the world. When God sent His Son, He sent Him to transform and to engage. And while Scripture says He ...
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Living Love (& loving life): Lessons from a 3rd Grade Teacher
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Thursday, August 28, 2014. Lessons from a 3rd Grade Teacher. Yesterday we lost our son's 3rd grade teacher tragically and unexpectedly. We only had him for 8 days but we learned so much. Here are things he taught us:. 1 To use the pronoun "we" in learning is acceptable. 2 To not go "by the book" is ok. 3 To show grace is a must and is an always. How could you forget? We got back to the school and I started in again "Mr. S may still be in the classroom so what are you going to say if you see him? He said,...
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Living Love (& loving life): September 2013
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Sunday, September 1, 2013. I haven't written in forever. No good excuses; I just haven't known what to say. I've typed a few times, ended up never really publishing every time and walked away again and again. International adoption is like hiking a mountain in the rain in roller blades." (Lisa Harper). On that mountain we are like only 1/3 of the way there, plus we've lost the trail to the top. So here's what's happened since I last posted about our adoption process (which was a long, long time ago).
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Living Love (& loving life): Doing the Hard
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Friday, November 1, 2013. I find it ironic that in life we somehow equate "easy" "normal" and "comfortable" with something or someone being "good". Since when does that actually make sense? In fact, in terms of adoption, this notion is a stumbling block for Christians especially. Have you heard it before? Oh adoption isn't really for us. Too many kids come out of it with issues.". There's no way we would ever adopt. I mean, have you SEEN the kids that are adopted? It rarely works out good.". It starts wh...
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Living Love (& loving life): February 2014
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Thursday, February 27, 2014. When it feels like God plays Hide and Seek. Since my last post, I've been doing some major "soul-searching" if you will. It's been the nitty-gritty kind that hurts quite a bit and takes awhile to recover from. It's also the kind that you hope you never really recover from. Does that make sense? You are together and talking and then you decide to go about life, count to 10 so to speak, and then time's up and I start frantically seeking. And it's almost like I get to these ...
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Living Love (& loving life): August 2014
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Thursday, August 28, 2014. Lessons from a 3rd Grade Teacher. Yesterday we lost our son's 3rd grade teacher tragically and unexpectedly. We only had him for 8 days but we learned so much. Here are things he taught us:. 1 To use the pronoun "we" in learning is acceptable. 2 To not go "by the book" is ok. 3 To show grace is a must and is an always. How could you forget? We got back to the school and I started in again "Mr. S may still be in the classroom so what are you going to say if you see him? He said,...
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Living Love (& loving life): When it feels like God plays Hide & Seek....
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Thursday, February 27, 2014. When it feels like God plays Hide and Seek. Since my last post, I've been doing some major "soul-searching" if you will. It's been the nitty-gritty kind that hurts quite a bit and takes awhile to recover from. It's also the kind that you hope you never really recover from. Does that make sense? You are together and talking and then you decide to go about life, count to 10 so to speak, and then time's up and I start frantically seeking. And it's almost like I get to these ...