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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 […]
A Letter to My House (Written in 2011) Hey old friend, I’ve never been good at goodbye. But time has a way of forcing these things, and even as I tap the keys, the clock on your wall ticks a steady march toward the inevitable. The moving truck comes tomorrow. Right now, I find myself back in the place where we […]