Tag: feelings
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Expectations…
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in Advent, Christmas, Expectations, Gifts, Healing, Hope, love, Seasons, Struggles, The Journey, UncategorizedExpectations. We all have them. We all have them imposed upon us. Webster says that an expectation is a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future. Yep… my life has been full of expectations. My biggest expectations come around the holidays. I tend to have a little Norman Rockwell…
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The Battle Belongs to Him…
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Life feels hard right now. Nationwide, people are angry. People are afraid. People are confused. The next four years feel very unsettled. Social media has exploded with all of these feelings and emotions pouring out everyday. I’ve tried hard not to let myself get too caught up in emotion. Then there is the next layer…
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Resiliency and Growth Over Time…
today, tomorrow & every day – THOUGHTS ON LIVING A BRAVE AND REAL AND GORGEOUS LIFE. Written by M.H. Clark and illustrated by Jill Labieniec. Here are my continued thoughts on this amazing book I received as a gift. She hadn’t always been this way. …
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Grief Revisited…
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It takes only a song, a smell, a memory shared on FB, a sound, a picture, a date on the calendar… and the grief comes flooding back. Fresh as the day it began. Today was just that… a date on the calendar. Four months to the day. A time on the clock. It happened right…
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365 Days of Our Story…
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It’s really just another day on the calendar. 12:01 AM and the new day begins. 364 days out of the year I’m sleeping when this transition takes place… completely unaware. But there is that one time each calendar year I’m actually awake when that clock strikes midnight. There’s fanfare and noise and kissing. It seems…
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Honest and Real and Raw…
Christmas letters. That one time each year that you can summarize all of the fabulous things that have happened in your life over the past 12 months in one cheery, perfect message! Susie made the Honor Roll… again… and had the lead in the school broadway production. Jimmy was voted MVP in each of his…
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Beautiful…
What defines beauty? What qualities deem one beautiful? Recently on FB, there is a game (for lack of a better term) going around. If you are tagged, you are asked to post five photo’s of yourself in which you feel beautiful. I have only seen a few people take on the challenge. Is that because…
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So Why the Yellow Towel?
I took it from the rag pile. A small butter yellow bath hand towel. Faded from years of use and occasional bleaching. The edges were tattered. It would be perfect to wipe down the newly cleaned bathroom fixtures. I walked into the bathroom and laid the yellow towel on the counter. Suddenly the memories came…
Thoughts and Reflections on Life 