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More Than Music
I’m driving along, singing loudly with one of my favorite songs, when I hear a little voice rise from the back seat. I turn the music down and glance in my rear view mirror as I ask her to repeat...
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Embraced and Surrounded
“I promise, sweetheart. It will do its job. It will not let you go under.” As I said those words for the hundredth time that weekend, I looked once again into her skeptical eyes. The life jacket...
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Worship and Us: Why does it matter?
This past summer, my four year old daughter decided about once a week that she wanted to dress like me. It started one day when we were meeting some friends for a playdate. I was wearing a T-shirt and...
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About the Justin Thing
When I heard on the news this morning that Justin Bieber had been arrested, I was glad. I know that sounds terrible, but let me explain. In our culture, we are constantly elevating young people to...
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The Implications of PreApproval
It wasn’t about the shoes at all, really, but as it usually happens, something as innocuous as a too-small pair of tee ball cleats became the spark igniting all the fire and fury my human heart can...
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When You Realize You’ve Been Heard
As mamas, sometimes we do things over and over and over, hoping for a certain result but never knowing if our efforts are making a difference at all. We have to wait and wait and wait, hoping beyond...
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What Cigarettes Taught My Daughter About God
We flew past the tiny car, its driver lazily puffing on a cigarette as he crept down the road. I had places to go, and his under-the-speed-limit driving wasn’t working for me. As we passed him, she...
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Grace, Freely Given
She’s had this name all her life, but she’s only now realizing it’s kind of weird. She’s never had to think about it before, but now – with safety patrol members calling her name over the walkie...
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Today and Tomorrow
We’re nearly three months into the school year, and I still feel like I’m pretending. We’ve gone from the blistering heat of August to the cool, leaf-blowing breezes of October, and I still don’t feel...
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From Mamas of Littles to Mamas of Not-So-Littles: What We Need From You
Dear Mamas, This is hard for us to say because we really do look up to you. You are further down this mothering road than we are, and you have weathered storms we don’t even know are coming yet. You...
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