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The Hodgepodge Darling: I Am From
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Monday, August 22, 2016. This essay was originally published in Do South Magazine, a beautiful publication out of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Visit their website here. For more of my monthly contributions. As I worked on the I-Am-From assignment and simultaneously began to collect clips about train tracks, I figured out that most people do not have an inner dialogue describing life around them in flowery, poetic phrases. Magazine in a waiting room, or on your phone while you stand in line at the grocery store&...
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The Hodgepodge Darling: February 2015
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Monday, February 16, 2015. We are called to live in reflection of Christ. He, who was completely broken. He, who went to great lengths to SAVE. From Heaven to Earth. From life to death. Back again. He, who held nothing back. He, who became COMPLETELY broken. I tried to hold on to wholeness before. But God showed me that I could not be whole and still be wholly used by Him. There are only two sorts of hearts. Hard hearts or broken ones. And serving God always holds a promise of A BROKEN HEART. A hard hear...
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The Hodgepodge Darling: For the Revivalists.
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Friday, November 20, 2015. For the Revivalists. For the hungry. For the Christ-chasers. For the ministers. For the hurting. For the overwhelmed:. God has addressed many things in me in the last several months. Compromise and competitive thoughts. He has abolished the unforgiveness in my heart and the offenses I allowed to creep in. He taught me to take a slap across the face and turn the other cheek. He taught me how to consider it joy when my goods were plundered. Until I realized that fear kills reviva...
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The Hodgepodge Darling: September 2016
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Monday, September 19, 2016. The Light brings out the poems. Like some distillation, some percolating process,. When the sun shines on my skin and. Then poetry begins seeping from my. Words flow lovely from fingertips,. Ink on pages, sometimes cryptic. But sometimes clear, so clear. You could consume them and know. The very deepest, sweetest depths. Transparency was frightening for the. Longest while, like a boogey-man fear,. Exposure felt always near and. I was so afraid. In attempts of self protection,.
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The Hodgepodge Darling: May 2015
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015. This article was originally posted in Do South Magazine. I am a good mom. Ten years ago, in the middle of the night on a Wednesday in November, my first son was born. I was nineteen years old. The next day, I changed a dirty diaper for the first time and prayed that there wouldn’t be some sort of baby test in order for me to take him home. Because I just knew I would have failed it. So what do we do? Well, this is what has worked for me:. For years I prayed for patience. Every ...
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The Hodgepodge Darling: November 2015
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Friday, November 20, 2015. For the Revivalists. For the hungry. For the Christ-chasers. For the ministers. For the hurting. For the overwhelmed:. God has addressed many things in me in the last several months. Compromise and competitive thoughts. He has abolished the unforgiveness in my heart and the offenses I allowed to creep in. He taught me to take a slap across the face and turn the other cheek. He taught me how to consider it joy when my goods were plundered. Until I realized that fear kills reviva...
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The Hodgepodge Darling: Blended
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Monday, August 22, 2016. This essay was originally published in Do South Magazine, a beautiful publication out of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Visit their website here. For more of my monthly contributions. Summer days start early. Roosters begin to crow at five in the morning, and the toddlers begin their cry of “Breakfast! It’s when Maliah comes. As soon as she gets here, the atmosphere of our family shifts. Usually, the farm is just an ordinary part of life, but when Maliah comes, there is an enjoyment a...
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The Hodgepodge Darling: I am Christmas
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Thursday, December 3, 2015. This article originally appeared in Do South Magazine. I am a fake tree, bought from a clearance sale and decorated with more twinkle lights than could be counted. I am hung with six Baby’s-First-Christmas ornaments, with reindeer made of candy canes, and years of faded Polaroid. December 3, 2015 at 7:43 PM. Just beautiful. I put a link to this post on my facebook page - exceptionally well written and so meaningful! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Don't miss a thing.
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The Hodgepodge Darling: October 2015
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Thursday, October 22, 2015. This Little Life of Mine. I have opened a blank document no less than three dozen times in the last couple of months and just stared at the blinking curser. Then I second guess. I can’t imagine that it would inspire anyone at all. That’s the enemy. He’s a liar. I rebuke that nonsense. I’m here to tell you that this isn’t easy, but the best things never are. Since then, I've felt the same pull. I've felt like I should teach people about chickens and show how we live. It...But t...
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The Hodgepodge Darling: Extraordinary
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Monday, August 22, 2016. This essay was originally published in Do South Magazine, a beautiful publication out of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Visit their website here. For more of my monthly contributions. And she would always say the same thing, “They are just used to it. It’s just normal to them. If you don’t want to lose the wonder, don’t treat it like it’s just normal.”. It’s just normal. 8221; to which I responded, “They make me think of angels.”. When a blade requires sharpening, it must be unsheathed an...
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