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• GUY DELCAMBRE May 17, 2012
  twitter || blogGuy is just a dad of three littles who has experienced deep, deep loss in the past few years. He writes about grace, patience, parenting, and grief in tangibles. One of the things I look for in blogs to read is a sense of the raw and Guy never fails. But I also look for a deep sense of hope and Guy presses on, faithfully, transparently, and gr […]
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• Folks, that beauty is a cold sore. May 15, 2012
  For as long as I can remember I’ve been getting them. The entire process is awkward, it hurts, and when I was little they were simply another reason for others to tease me. I’ve gotten over that last part. Promise. But I haven’t gotten over the awkward and hurt parts. And how much I dislike the whole thing. There’s not much I hate as much as I hate this: Hel […]
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• SARAH BAKER May 15, 2012
  twitter || blogWhen I asked SB to write me a guest post she shot back an email about rambling and the question "Are you sure?" This girl. THIS GIRL. Before we met a friend told me I'd love her heart and, can I be honest? This girl's heart is solid treasure (and she's rolling her eyes reading that right now, but I swear it's true […]
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• the start May 14, 2012
  Hi. My name is Louissa. I have a paunch of a stomach that some may think is bigger than it should be already. I have some serious love handles taking over my lower back. The number on the scale is starting to go up week after week. One out of every three meals seems to find it’s way back up out of my stomach. I live feeling a bit nauseous most of the time. A […]
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• PAUL BURKHART II May 11, 2012
  twitter || blogPaul is one of my favorite, favorite blogs to read when I want to be challenged to think about the word or spirituality in a new and fresh way. We disagree on enough small things that he makes me think and wrestle more than I like to do with most bloggers, but we agree on enough that sometimes his words on grace, faith, growth, theology catch […]
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• PAUL BURKHART May 10, 2012
  twitter || blogPaul is one of my favorite, favorite blogs to read when I want to be challenged to think about the word or spirituality in a new way. We disagree on enough small things that he makes me think and wrestle more than I like to do with most bloggers, but we agree on enough that sometimes his words on grace, faith, growth, theology catch in my thro […]
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• BETHANY SUCKROW May 8, 2012
  twitter || blogI haven't been reading Bethany for long, but I'll be honest...well...I'll let her be honest for herself. This girl is honest. She's just raw and real about the things that push and pull for her affections and attentions. She doesn't mess around. Plus she's a great writer. She works in a communications department a […]
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• today felt like summertime May 6, 2012
  It felt like summertime because I woke to the noise of a fan (our upstairs gets incredibly warm incredibly fast) and I only grew up with fans in the bedroom on hot, sticky nights when they were most needed. It felt like summertime because The Husband and I rode bikes down to the park here in town to watch a nephew in his little league game. Starting pitcher […]
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• untitled May 3, 2012
  a month ago i had 14 vials of blood drawn in the space of about 24 hours. when they drew the second batch of 7 vials i handled it quite maturely by bursting into tears. i did feel like i was going to lose my breakfast and the room would never stop spinning — but really? full-blown crying that i couldn’t stop even when they were done and i was leaving the hos […]
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• PAUL MATTHIES May 3, 2012
  twitter || blogMy first introduction to Paul came through some friends at my church who kept talking about a series that had been preached a few years earlier about depression and loneliness by this guy. He had already moved on by the time I moved here, but soon enough I listened to the series and then stumbled across his blog. This guy is biblical, empathet […]
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• SEASON CALDWELL May 1, 2012
  twitter || blogSeason was my friend first. Well, first she was someone else's friend first, but then she was mine. Then she was my roommate. Then my officemate. Now we share a bathroom. Seas is a videographer at the same non-profit where I work. Something I love about this girl is that she's a no bs sort of girl. She doesn't mess around with t […]
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• INTO the WOODS April 27, 2012
  Last summer I took a blogging sabbatical and it was anything but a sabbath.I rested from writing. But resting from writing is like resting from thinking or breathing or sleeping. I felt void at the end of the month, like the shed skin of a cold blooded animal.And I learned a few things:Rest is not abstaining from what makes us feel most alive . . .I rest bes […]
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• the WRITE STUFF April 26, 2012
  When I was 18 I worked for a summer camp as a lifeguard. Halfway through the summer, I was brought in as a counselor because one of the counselors had to leave because of a family emergency.Fast forward 12 years to a young family walking through my front door last week. I'd been following their story for a few weeks and when I heard they were making the […]
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• who WANTS my CREDIT CARD? April 25, 2012
  It is a thing to be trusted.This morning I took my boss's American Express card and drove a quarter mile to the post office. A left turn and a right turn and I was there. A package needed to be overnighted and I was free to do it, so I did, with a credit card tucked in the front pocket of my jeans.This is a small thing, a normal thing for most employees […]
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• what HE OWNS April 22, 2012
  There are strange and common fears that arrest and pull us like a horrible secret or the last page of a well-loved book—we want to know the end, yet we know when we know it it will change our lives. This is the calamity of living forward—there are no rewinds or do-overs, what is known cannot be unknown. But life, as Kierkegaard said, must be lived forwards, […]
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• the WHOLE STORY April 18, 2012
  The unfolding of your words gives light;it imparts understanding to the simple.Psalm 119:130I’m not ready to tell you the whole story yet, but that’s because the whole story hasn’t been written yet, quite literally. But I will tell you this: My whole life has never been handed to me. It has been tug of war since I first spoke, at nine or ten months old and l […]
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• THE MOUNTAINS WE MAKE April 17, 2012
  The Mountains—grow unnoticed—Their Purple figures riseWithout attempt—Exhaustion—Assistance—or Applause—E. DickinsonI understand the science of the east coast mountains, but this, I suppose, is because I am an east coast girl and these are my mountains. In earth science we learn that mountains are built and leveled over time with water and there is water eve […]
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• baby news April 16, 2012
  I don’t have any creative way of telling other than just coming out and spewing the news at you from excitement, hope, nervousness, anxiousness, joy — I’m pregnant! When your very first pregnancy ends in a miscarriage, there’s a level of uncertainty when you discover you’re expecting again. But more than uncertainty is the joy that comes from the amazing gif […]
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• COZY REPTILES and OTHER PETS WE KEEP April 15, 2012
  And I will put enmity beween you and the woman...Genesis 3:15We found the chair for $25 dollars at an estate sale in the fancy section of Dallas. It’s everyone’s favorite. I do most of my writing in it because it is my favorite, and also because it is nestled in a corner by the fireplace for when it is cold and by the window for when it is hot. Yesterday I w […]
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• OIL and WATER and THE LIES WE TELL OURSELVES April 13, 2012
  I've got layers of lies that I don't even know about yet. Sara GrovesHere's what happened:A friend told me something and I believed her. I do that. I'm a believing, trusting sort of person. The thing is, what she told me was only half true. Not half true to her—she told me the truth as best as she could, but it was only half of the whole […]
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