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12/26/11--11:16: Expressing Gratitude in the Dark Valley (chan 2719600)

Scrolling through my Facebook news feed, I see a friend announce that she’ll be using paper plates for Thanksgiving this year…for the first time ever. I sat quietly for  moment pondering our Thanksgiving this year and I glanced over at the stack of boxes in my living room. My gorgeous white square plates are wrapped [...]






12/26/11--11:16: Don’t Let Advertising Think for You (chan 2719600)

I had a rough week and headed to bed early every night this week. This is totally out of character for me, as I am normally a night owl. So I turned on the TV to watch some comedies to lighten the serious mood I’ve had all week and was scratching my head at almost every commercial [...]






12/26/11--11:16: So I Was Hacked (chan 2719600)

It took me over a month to figure out what was going on with my blog. I noticed it was running really slow and I started dumping plug ins one at a time. I ran anti-virus and spam plug ins and used Google’s Web Master tools to try and find out what the problem was. [...]






12/26/11--11:16: Today’s Samaritans (chan 2719600)

Adding this post to my collection of “Life in the Paradox” posts. Each year we have opened our home to friends for Thanksgiving and this year I didn’t think we would be able to. Our home is filled with packed boxes and things are just totally out of place. Our best dishes are all packed, [...]






12/26/11--11:16: On Being Transparent (chan 2719600)

The cry goes out in the blogosphere, ‘be authentic’. Readers want transparency and originality and I understand that. I would much rather read a blog that has authentic heart and a realistic personality, but then we hesitate on being authentic ourselves. I think many of us secretly battle with insecurity and fear rejection if people knew who [...]






12/26/11--11:16: The Simple Kind of Christmas (chan 2719600)

In previous years, I would become so stressed out during December with all the hustle of Christmas and I longed for a simple kind of Christmas..only to keep getting caught up in the whirl wind of various traditions and trying to keep up with everyone else around us. This year it seemed the Spirit of [...]






12/26/11--11:16: The Freedom We Have in Christmas (chan 2719600)

I am a bit delayed in getting my holiday theme up. I had hoped to be able to do all the designing over the Thanksgiving weekend, but I wasn’t able to get it done. So please bear with me as you continue to see my Autumn decor. It’s that time of year again when people [...]






12/31/11--12:32: My Hope for 2012 (chan 2719600)

I am enjoying this holiday… as I sit here still in my pj’s at 11:45 am. I have spent way too much time on Facebook jumping into various theological banter and it’s been a bit like playing double-dutch jump rope with friends. I keep seeing lots of friends posting about their 2011 and their goals for 2012 [...]


01/12/12--16:38: Lord’s Prayer Recitation to be Required in Public School (chan 2719600)

We started out the month of November with the hopes that we would be moving before Thanksgiving. We rushed everything into boxes, taped them up, then everything with that home fell through. We pulled out due to some issues with the property managers and now we have sat, waiting to move to the next home. [...]


01/26/12--15:20: The Church Waves the White Flag (chan 2719600)

Just a few days left and we’ll be pulling out of our street with a packed U-Haul. Nearly twenty years in this city and lots of memories. Our lives together as husband and wife, as well as in parenthood, began here. It hasn’t always been a bed of roses. Our start began quite rocky, in [...]