Death

5 Things I Learned from 2020

Date: January 2, 2021
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Categories: Being Transparent, Death, Friendship, Overwhelmed, Prayer, Relationship, Religion

I hear so much about how everyone is glad to have 2020 over and how they’re done with the year. Yes, this year has been long, but I still can’t believe it’s over. I feel like we lived in a murky vacuum of time and as much as I know…

Walking Forward into the Unknown

Date: May 30, 2020
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Categories: Being Transparent, Death, Expectations, Faith, Relationship, Trust

The end of May has traditionally been a harder time than normal for me. It’s the end of school for starters. I loved school growing up and I remember crying most last days of school. Yes, I continued to play school over the summer and read lots of books, but…

Your Story Matters, Part 3

Date: August 8, 2019
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Categories: Death, Expectations, Friendship, Relationship, Stories

Disagreements. Hardache. Beliefs. Hatred. Confusion. I’m not sure there are many happy stories to tell about Gettysburg, PA back in the Civil War. On those fatal days in July 1863, around 50,000 soldiers were casualties of the war; either injured or dead from the fights. Houses and barns were taken…

Your Story Matters, Part 2

Date: August 1, 2019
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Categories: Death, Faith, Prayer, Relationship, Stories

While visiting New York City this summer, we took the time to visit the 9/11 Memorial. I really did not know what to expect as this was my first time in NYC. The ony reference of the twin towers I had was movies and pictures; mainly, TV newscasts of that…

Did You Feel the Sorrow of Good Friday?

Date: April 22, 2019
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Categories: Death, Faith, Friendship, Israel, Prayer, Relationship, Stories, Thankfulness

I’m not a big fan of Good Friday services. I struggle to dwell in the unhappy and uncomfortable times of Jesus dying on the cross. I don’t like how it feels and I know the end of the story, so why put myself through that? I don’t like being sad…

Transitions in Life

Date: July 21, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Bible Study, Death, Expectations, Faith, Overwhelmed, Relationship, Stories

One of the pastors at our church recently preached on transitions in our lives. Our church is in the midst of a transition as we are looking for a new pastor. Then, the next morning, we found out about a dear gentleman in our church who died suddenly. A few…

Living a Dream

Date: June 9, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Death, Expectations, Peace, Prayer, Relationship, Trust

I’m writing this post from an Arkansas state park early in the morning as the kids are still asleep. The family is on the start of a 26-day journey across parts of America in an RV. This is something Brian and I thought we’d do one day when we were…

Headed to the Blazing Furnace

Date: September 23, 2017
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Categories: Being Transparent, Consistency, Death, Faith, Relationship

Last time we took an adventure with Shadrach (Hananiah), Meshach (Mishael), and Abednego (Azariah). These three men stood strong with each other through an exile from Judah to Babylon. They refused to eat what they knew was to be wrong for them. They rose to power among the Babylonians and…

Can You Say “Even If…”?

Date: September 14, 2017
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Categories: Baal, Being Transparent, Consistency, Death, Faith, Relationship, Religion

Ah, good ‘ol Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. I was reading about them in Daniel 3:16-18 this week as they were getting ready to be thrown into the furnace if they did not bow down to the gold statue Nebuchadnezzar had built of himself. “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to…

Defeat or Hope?

Date: May 13, 2017
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Categories: Being Transparent, Death, Expectations, Overwhelmed, Prayer, Relationship, Stories, Trust

We lost another good person to cancer this week: Jerry. He was the one we met during the first round of chemo treatments. He and Brian hit it off and they talked everyday that week of treatments. Jerry was also the one I wrote about back in November when I…

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