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A Place They Want to Be

I continue to learn how to build a beautiful and joyful home environment where people want to gather. I coax my teens out of their bedrooms

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Little Joys

On difficult days of long work hours–whether parenting or at a desk or any other kind of overwhelming, tiring labor, I think about building in

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Stuffing Every Moment

My youngest exudes Christmas spirit the moment we allow her to begin playing Christmas music in her room mid-November. By now, she’s outlined her room

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How Not to Live

I’m back to reading E. Stanley Jones more slowly and deliberately to gain wisdom. Today, I reflect on this quote: “Humans beings are in the

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Traffic

I’ve blogged in traffic before. You apply all the same remedies: practicing thankful hearts, embracing a peaceful resignation, knowing God works in delay, realizing your

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Always a Walk to Take

I love the question, “Do you want to talk a walk?” The best conversations happen on a walk. Thoreau famously said that an “early morning

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At the Best Table

You are right where you should be. All the blessings from Jesus are available to you right now. You don’t need to think about another

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Give Away Something

I read in an old devotional by E. Stanley Jones about always living “as a witness to the new life.” He writes that we have

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