Being Followed…

This morning I am sitting in Panera working on the sermon schedule for the next 6 months. Of course I need to get my dates right, so I looked up this year’s Advent schedule online. (One might think a working Christian calendar would have been implanted when God called me into the ministry, but I […]

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As a child…

“Is the baby naked inside your belly?” ~ Ivy Meg reads about the arrival of the Royal newlyweds, while I read about politics. She flips through pictures of dresses, while I contemplate debates and meetings at the White House. Normally I am surprised by the popularity of the Life section over the Front page – […]

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Mega?…

“My mother had not had a hot meal for herself in fifteen years…” ~ Narrator, The Christmas Story On the patio the girls threw the little white pops. Even Phoebe was able to explode the snaps. But in our pack of yellow boxes was also a “Not For Children” Mega Snaps. I got them out […]

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Cones…

Megan’s birthday is today. Of course with Breathe this morning and VBS registration tonight there is not time to celebrate. So we went out last night (a romantic foursome – with Ivy blowing any candles that were lit!). At the end we found ourselves enjoying Baskin Robbins (in Megan’s tradition every good evening ends with […]

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Paid…

“I am not afraid of anything. Except at bedtime – then I’m afraid of the dark.” ~ Ivy As you know we live in a mail box exclusive neighborhood, but when all your dollars go into mail boxes… well it seems we did not have enough to clean the neighborhood pool. When we first found […]

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