Okay… so yesterday I told you that I’d be posting “thirty favourite things” from the last year… things that were big or important to me that I never really wrote about — some of the “life changing” or “significantly impacting things” from my 50th year. And I’ve been thinking that I have so many significant things to share — but what are worth telling — or, more importantly (considering this is a public venue), what are worth reading? So I’m attempting to tell the stuff that’s worth reading. June was an extremely busy month and, as such, some of…
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Helloooooooooooooo there… I’ve been missing this place. Or, rather, I’ve been missing from this place. I have been racking my brain as to what to do to jump back into the blog pool… it’s sort of like exercising… I love it when I am exercising, but I do not like to ‘have to’ exercise — blogging’s like that sometimes — and like exercise (or any other somewhat beneficial thing, I love it. I don’t love it. I miss it. I don’t miss it. If you’re a blogger, you totally know what I am talking about. So, here I am… and…
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My friend surprised me with a delicious Sbx this morning. What a yummy treat and wonderful way to start the day! Sbx coffees haven’t been part of my ‘diet regimen’ lately, but today I obviously had to make concessions for… well, what could I have done? Tell my dear friend, no thanks, I’m dieting… what? are you crazy? no… no… no… not me! So… yum… it’s as delicious now, one hour later, reheated just a tad… and here’s what it says: By the time executives get married take on a mortgage, raise kids, cope with crabgrass, climb the corporate ladder,…
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Literally. Since my last blog entry to this, there has been a ‘record’ amount of water under the bridge… and the normally green farmland that surrounds our home now appears to be a lake. One of the captions in the local paper read, “A series of homes and barns cling to strands of dry land in Snohomish on Friday.” I don’t know if I’d have described our home as clinging to a strand of dry land, but it was certainly sitting in the floodwater and the LORD surely had it anchored. Someone commented to us, “You’re fortunate that you have…
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Just watching the weather reports… working, watching, waiting, working, watching, waiting… praising the LORD for His *goodness!* to us all. How great is the love that God has *lavished* on us… Snohomish River Flood Watch
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[thank you for the personal letters inquiring as to my lack of blogging… i love you and will keep writing, still] I’m sitting in my husband’s office… it’s early and the sun is shining. I love this time of year – the sun shines at an angle such that it comes streaming in the south/east windows and casts an apricot/pink glow. I love that the days are growing longer a minute or so a day. I love that a whole new year looms large before us. I love that there’s hope and promise and potential. Potentiality… that’s what I love…
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So, tell me about you. And thus began a very long conversation. Have you ever asked someone that? I mean asked them and really meant to be asking the question bcz you really wanted to know — and not for information’s sake but for love – that’s all, just for love. Well, that’s how my conversation with my cousin began. Just for love, that’s all. I loathe actions done for anything else. That’s been a character quality that has brought me both great peace and great anguish. Great peace bcz I’m a what-you-see-is-what-you-get person. Great anguish bcz what you…
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I have a sweet friend who routinely asks me: What’s on your schedule for this week? and I usually proceed to tell her something like: Hmmm… just the usual; housekeeping, gardening, baking and schooling… and then I may tell of the significant event of the week or whatever. And, that’s pretty much how weeks go. The dailies and some event or another — always keeping in mind the time-tested reality that the week will never go how I thought it would — that I will look back and marvel that the days each seemed long but the week just flew…
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Another Monday… Monday’s are sort of reflection days for me — maybe they are for you, too. It sort sets the pace for the week in reflection & prayer as I work around our home. I reflect on what was shared in the Sunday meeting — the messages, songs, prayers… etc., etc. I also reflect on whatever else happened over the weekend — which, most weekends, is at least one event or another. My mind sort of floods with thoughts of Saturday. I had the privilege to speak at a retreat in Olympia and the faces of the women are…
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I had to chuckle today at the hullabaloo over Sarah Palin’s reference to a Sbx (yeah, I know, she said Quote of the Day and blew it and should have said, “The Way I See It… number… blah, blah, blah – and should not have blundered the word: help when she used the word: support). So, she got the #287 cup… ‘sure glad she didn’t bungle the number of States in the US or something silly like that. You know which cup I got? Yep……………. it’s the same #280 I’ve gotten many times. How is that possible? I’ve gotten that…