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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says
This is my fifth entry to the Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s theme is: The Sign Says. Funny, poignant, symbolic, incorrect, informative, foreshadowing…there are so many signs in the world. Click...
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Happiness in Salt Lake City
We arrived early – with about three hours to spare before any formal commitments for this trip. So, my traveling companion and I decided to drive towards the mountains – which wasn’t a hard feat, no...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through My Eyes
It’s no secret that I love cats, but I really love all animals. They grab my attention wherever I am – and I find incredible happiness in looking at how they love life. I try to see the world through...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Miraculous Companion
This is my 7th post with Weekly Photo Challenge | The Daily Post. This week’s challenge was Companionable. Share a picture of a COMPANION and explain why you chose that picture. Click the links below...
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In the Light
Reblogged from Calculated Wanderings:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDx1v0ZzFqQ&w=652&h=397] She sat in my office, shoulders slumped - heavy with the weight of fear from past memories....
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In the Light
Co-authored with my dad, Reverend Philip VanDop @ CalculatedWanderings.com. She sat in my office, shoulders slumped – heavy with the weight of fear from past memories. Burdens she’d chosen to carry too...
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What are we really looking for?
Reblogged from Calculated Wanderings: The old story goes there was a flood and as the waters rose a man, living in his house, kept going from one floor to the next;until he was finally observed;sitting...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour
This is my 8th post with Weekly Photo Challenge | The Daily Post. This challenge was: The Golden Hour. In photography, the “golden hour” is the first and last hour of sunlight of the day. Photographers...
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Book Review: Second Chances by Max Lucado
The title of this book, Second Chances, caught my eye because I have been on the receiving end of many second chances in life. From very small happenstances to extreme life changes – being granted a...
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The Knot Prayer
Dear God, Please untie the knots That are in my mind, My heart and my life. Remove the have nots, The cannots and the do nots Erase the will nots, May nots, Might nots that may find A home in my heart....
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Do I Belong Here?
One day, when I was in 5th grade, my teacher handed out a test explaining there were no wrong answers – so we should pick what we felt was best for the question. Something about the look of that test...
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Drawing Near to God
It’s raining in life right now and I long to be as close to God as possible, under His umbrella – sheltered from the storms raging around me. Everything feels incredibly uncomfortable and uncertain....
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Learning to Cook…at 31!
I’ll be turning 32 next week – and as I look back over the last year, I’m amazed at the things I have learned through this year’s changes. Each day has brought its wins and losses that have helped to...
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The Journey for My Son’s GI System
It's a very early February morning. The temperature outside is too low to mention and the sun is shining on about 12" of snow that surrounds my home. I'm sitting at the kitchen table listening to the...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Fresh
For this week’s photo challenge, share with us a photo that expresses something fresh. This is a photo taken of my husband’s hands encompassing my brand new baby son’s feet. He was brand new here…...
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And Then, I Saw Vultures
Originally posted on More Than Crackers:A few years back, I was at a high school reunion. It took place in a grassy park area, about a hundred yards or so from a manicured tree line. The lawn was...
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Journey of Becoming a Proverbs 31 Wife, Mother and Woman
Five months ago I officially became the mother of an incredible baby boy, Joshua. Nothing could have prepared me for the changes that were going to come my way. The hardest part has been finding a...
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To My Under-Appreciated Husband
Dear Husband, I want so badly to be the wife you deserve… A wife that greets you at the door, when you come home for work, emotionally stable with a smile on my face. A wife who could manage our son’s...
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Pure Spiritual Milk
“Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for the nourishment, now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness.” 1...
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