“Because words can build a bridge” or “Why I blog and why you should too”

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Two years and one job ago.
I sat across from the man I love on the bed we’ve loved in since we were first married ten years before. I sat and smacked fist into palm and said it again and again and again, “But this can’t be what I’m supposed to do with my life.”
And there [...]

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On seeing our {kids’} mistakes in perspective

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My first born, he’s just like me.
Starts the day out with a gold ribbon ceremony for showing honor, courage, responsibility at school and all he can think about is the reprimand that ended his school day.

All praise clouded out by a finger shaken in his direction. His breath fogs up the glasses that hide his [...]

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And then after 18 years I rediscovered my mom

January 9, 2012

Eighteen years isn’t enough.
Not by a long shot.
Because she won’t remember. She won’t remember the first one when I rocked her through every night and ached from the tired and how much my heart wanted to eat her whole.  She won’t feel the knitted blanket I wrapped around her and the giraffe lovie I tucked [...]

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A social media prayer for the new year

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Be careful which mirrors you choose to believe

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Close your eyes.

Close your eyes and let go of what others wrote last year. Let go of the beautiful, sparkly words that weren’t yours and that you wish you could’ve produced.
Close your eyes and let the wishing and itching at what your house isn’t, seep out your pores.
Close your eyes and stop seeing the behavior [...]

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Christmas Eve

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Into the dark.
Into the night.
Into the ache and pain and wave after wave of labor.
Into the dirt between handfuls of straw clutched in desperate fists.
Into the bite of teeth clenched down and muscles baring down and midwives singing down the fear, the fever in her eyes, the first time for her and us and creation.
Into [...]

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Five Minute Friday: Connected

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The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
~John 1:1-5, 14.

Words matter to me because they are the tools that God first used.
He spoke and worlds, waters, deserts, jacaranda trees, figs, watermelons, kangaroos, meerkats, and turtles came into being.
God spoke and painted the sky. God spoke and mapped the milky way. God spoke and [...]

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When God moves into the neighborhood

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It hasn’t snowed here yet. It’s been unseasonably warm. When Zoe and I walk to pick Jackson up from Kindergarten the sun warms us in ways unexpected for December. I’ve been able to say more yes to the playground than no.

But the radio sings of winter. It plays song after song of worship that sounds [...]

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Four helpful social media laws: 2. It’s about Conversation not Pitch, Nagging or Complaining

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In October I spoke at the Relevant Conference on a panel about social media. I have this awesome gig as the social media manager for DaySpring and community manager for their website, (in)courage. I love my job and I think about social media like, a lot. This week I’ll be sharing 4 posts with some [...]

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Four helpful social media laws: 1. It’s about Relationship not Solicitation

December 5, 2011

In October I spoke at the Relevant Conference on a panel about social media. I have this awesome gig as the social media manager for DaySpring and community manager for their website, (in)courage. I love my job and I think about social media like, a lot. This week I’ll be sharing 4 posts with some [...]

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