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In: Grace, It's Just Life, Uncategorized

One week ago I said, “I look forward to seven new days to see God at work.” Those seven days have passed now. It would be wrong of me not to share with you, my friends, what I saw my awesome God do this week. On Tuesday afternoon my assignment was to write my “story”. In the process of writing, God brought clarity to my mind. Puzzle pieces finally fit into a scene not yet complete, or connected dots which bring a picture more clearly into focus. In the peace of my house, understanding came, and with it, confidence. I know now that God isRead More →

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In: Grace, Uncategorized

Excruciating pain! I sat in the emergency room of our local hospital, waiting for a doctor… in terrible pain. The ONLY thing that took my pain away was Jesus. In my mind I placed myself at the feet of Jesus and I whispered His name over and over and over again. If my focus strayed from the face of Jesus even for a second the pain threatened to drown me. On this rainy Monday morning I was reminded of this experience as I read these verses in David’s Psalm 16. 5 LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made myRead More →

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In: Taking After My Father, Uncategorized

My elementary art students and I are up to our elbows in paper-mache and we are all loving it! Our art room looks like a zoo complete with visiting guests in various stages of completion. Though by the end of my day I am feeling sick from the combined smell of flour, water, masking tape and newspaper I am thrilled that my students, and their parents too, are getting so much joy from this project! I am so thankful to God for this opportunity He has given me to do two things I love at once – teach and be creative. It is not alwaysRead More →

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In: Grace, It's Just Life, Taking After My Father, Uncategorized

Three trips to the city, a final Bible study meeting, a visit to the school health clinic, a challenging day of painting in my elementary art classes that gave me a terrible headache, a long hot morning watching Caleb compete in Track and Field Day, bread baking, Kids’ Club leading, wedding planning emails that took three hours to write, and a tiny bit of altered book crafting and gardening squeezed in made for an extremely full week. I saw God at work in my busy week! Running late because of the long detour around town, God allowed me to reach the hospital just in timeRead More →

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In: Taking After My Father, Uncategorized

A long time ago in fourth grade my art teacher taught me how to make a papier-mâché puppet. After a week of refreshing my memory on the process and making an example, Faith and I took all the supplies and went every day to teach a group of Christian young people to make their own puppets. The Lord arranged the schedule, helped me prepare for each day and on the last day of the workshop the students had ten very nice looking puppets. It was a huge blessing to spend a week with these terrific young people and watch as each puppet came to lifeRead More →