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From the Frying Pan to the Fire
January is finally over! I don’t know about you, but for me, January has been the longest, coldest month. It’s also been filled with twists and turns in the road—and a couple of sudden drops that left me screaming the whole way down. I can still feel my stomach lurching as if I plummeted through…
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Always On time
The clock is ticking. Whether it’s the alarm clock, the oven clock, your biological clock, a stopwatch during a race, or the timeline of our lives, time is always going by. If you’re exercising, usually time feels so slow, and you wonder if the minutes of exertion will ever end. If it’s your alarm clock,…
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One Plane Train to Another
Change can happen for a lot of different reasons, which I think can be divided into two categories: things that happen to you directly and things that happen to the people around you but still impact your life. Let’s talk about the changes that can happen to you directly. Maybe you get a new job…
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Persistence in 2025
How was your 2024? If I were to sit across the table from you at a coffee shop, could you tell me all the hard things that happened this past year? Can you think of any good things that happened for you this year? Maybe this was a year of victory and triumph for you.…
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1,000 Gifts in a Jar
I’m sure you’ve seen it. Families sitting annoyingly close together, smiling and chatting before the service in cute Christmas outfits. Mamas with babies in their arms, husbands and wives going on Christmas adventures. Couples strolling arm in arm in warm winter coats, or families driving together, sipping hot chocolate, and looking at Christmas lights. You…
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Feeling Loneliness
Do you have big, extravagant family gatherings for the holidays? Or small, intimate gatherings? Or maybe no gatherings with family at all? Do you see other people on social media and wish that your life or family was as happy and put together as theirs? Do you see people having parties with their friends and…
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Looking to God Even in Grief
I literally can’t handle anymore grief right now. That’s what I said to God at 2:30 in the afternoon when I remembered to sit down to read my Bible and pray in the middle of a day at home with laundry, puppies, and ten other little things that held my attention today. I’ve struggled with…
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Feelings are Okay
I am going to be honest with y’all. I really don’t want to talk about grief and loss. I feel like I have been writing a lot of grief lately because I am living in grief. When I sit down or take a walk to feel a poem, it has themes of grief and loss.…
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Humility & Vulnerability
As a blind person, humility is really hard for me to grasp. I want to be independent and figure out how to do things for myself, or I just give up completely and get someone’s help when I really don’t need it. But let’s stick with one of those times when being fiercely independent came…