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Musin' Mama: Life at the Speed of Wonder: Beginning Again
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014. Yesterday, the kids had their first piano lessons since we moved, and I was nervous for them. Benjamin had taken lessons for two years before we moved, and Abigail had only played for six months by the time we had to pull them out. After nearly a year and a half without lessons or regular practice, I knew they had forgotten much. I shouldn't have worried. Instead, she trusted them with a task appropriate to the skills they once had and slowly teased to life their body of knowl...
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Musin' Mama: Life at the Speed of Wonder: Favorite Musings
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Parenting: Lessons in Faith, Hope, and Love. Wrestling With the Joker. Is She Gonna Die? That Abby Would Have a Big Bunk Bed, Too. Today's Bummer Brought to You by the Conflicting Interests of Parenthood. You Can Give a Girl a Tissue. That Was the Day My Heart Growed". Til Death Do Us Part. Nine Extraordinary, Ordinary Years. Oops: Reason #5,362 I Married Josh. On Life, Health, and the Fragility of it All. Life is Pain, Princess. The Longest Day of the Year. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Jen Hatmaker - BLOG.
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Musin' Mama: Life at the Speed of Wonder: February 2014
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Friday, February 28, 2014. It's Not *What* You Do. Each morning on our way to school, I watch the crossing guards ensure our children cross the busy roads safely. They blow their whistles and flash their stop signs and gesture with determination to the hundreds of cars that drive through the intersection daily. If a car comes through the intersection too fast, they wave their arms and deliver a stink eye powerful enough to make grown men feel like children caught. But this woman has elevated her position...
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Musin' Mama: Life at the Speed of Wonder: Malala, Love, Wins
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Friday, October 10, 2014. Malala, Love, Wins. This is a repost from last fall. Malala was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a grand, public reminder that Love wins.). Most nights before bed, Josh and I watch Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. If you can watch the interview. But then I said, 'If he comes, what would you do, Malala? Then I would reply to myself, 'Malala, just take a shoe and hit him' [audience laughter]. But then I said, 'If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference be...
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Musin' Mama: Life at the Speed of Wonder: May 2014
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Monday, May 12, 2014. Desperately Seeking Jesus at Church. My heart this week has ached for a place to go on Sunday mornings that feels like home, for a community with whom to worship Jesus and study Scripture and love the world. Josh and I moved to the land of mega churches in August, and throughout the fall months, we tried church after church after church, kids in hand, looking for a place where we would all fall more in love with Jesus each week, where we could know folks and be known. Wow It sounds ...
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Musin' Mama: Life at the Speed of Wonder: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Waxing Spiritual: "O Holy Night". Truly he taught us to love one another. I'm grieving the many lives lost at the hands of those who justify their actions with law, ideology, and their knowledge of good and evil. I am standing in solidarity with the vulnerable:. Those in the path of ISIS. Too many caught in the conflicts of their forefathers. His law is love a. Nd his gospel is peace. Meanwhile, parents and children grieve. Chains will he break for the slave is our brother.
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Musin' Mama: Life at the Speed of Wonder: June 2015
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015. My kiddos are big kids now: seven and nine, on the brink of eight and ten. We are so far removed from the stroller and diaper bag days of the young families around us. When I was in those labor-intensive but sweet, snuggly years, I couldn't imagine life at this stage. Big kids seemed so, well, weird. Awkward. Un-charming. Big-toothed and gangly-limbed and scraggly-haired. Too loud at times and too quiet at others. That was good, Mommy! Mommy, watch this! Did you see that? I thin...
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Musin' Mama: Life at the Speed of Wonder: March 2014
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Friday, March 28, 2014. Childhood defines this moment. From my perch on the front porch, I hear Abby chatter and holler and giggle with the neighbor kids. They run from driveway to driveway following the impulse of youth, doing whatever excites their wide-open minds. Bikes and scooters dot the street, abandoned to new flashes of inspiration. Chalk drawings climb the driveway. Markers spill over the sidewalk into the planters. They play for no other purpose than to thrill at being alive, together. The fur...
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Musin' Mama: Life at the Speed of Wonder: History in Humility
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014. At dinner, Abigail said, "I don't like Christopher Columbus.". Josh and I were surprised to hear this kind of declaration from a seven-year-old, so of course we asked, "Why? Because he came here and took things from the people who were already here and made them sick.". We have a brief conversation about this harsh reality, about the context of Thanksgiving, about the way fear due to language gaps and cultural differences leads people to make bad decisions. Or as a flawed, compl...
