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I spent the past weekend with about a hundred Jesus-sisters at a retreat center a few miles south of our farm. We call it The Hill. For three days we hang out in a retreat center, set among the trees. We drive up there — up from our valleys — seeking to set our hinds’ feet on high places. I have been in […]
My eyes popped open to the alarm. It was o’dark-thirty, and every inch of me wanted to fall back asleep. But I willed my feet to the floor, then shuffled through the inky darkness, to slip on my workout clothes and shoes. I drove the bumpy gravel roads to the gym where a dozen of us gather three times […]
It happened like this: The girls were in the two back seats of the car. The tunes were cranked up ear-split loud, to the max, because that’s how we roll. “Let’s sing it, girls! Let me hear ya,” I cheered. And so we all found a part to sing, a trio of one mother and two daughters. This was our little way […]
I’m driving down the highway to a friend’s house. I’m due at her house at 3:30. We have a later-afternoon shopping trip planned, and I’ve been looking forward to this all day. I’m not a woman who’s into the “retail therapy” thing, but what I am into is this: quality time spent with […]
This is how it happened for years. Every morning when I would come awake to the day, I would talk to Jesus. “Good morning,” I’d say. “It’s me again. What are we up to today, Lord?” I’d tell God how much I loved Him. I’d apologize in advance for the dumb stuff I was certain to […]