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In Search of Rest
This month my post for Indiaanya was on rest - something that God is showing me how to enjoy, in the absence of much of the craziness that my life with two littles in America afforded. So, at the moment, I'm enjoying my R&R, and discovering that our souls find rest in God alone. (Ps 62)
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Don’t focus on the Potatoes and Potholes
So we wanted to get here.
After selling our house and our cars at the perfect point in time. After getting our US citizenship and all our crazy complicated Indian paperwork sorted. But before the school year started. With admission in the school we chose although they'd closed admissions for the year. While living in an apartment ...
Stepping Out
I was shopping at Target last week when I ran into a 3-year-old I teach at Sunday School. (She was with her mom, people. This isn’t an article on free-range versus helicopter parenting.)
Anyway, the adorable thing looked up at me and said with wonder, “Teacher, I didn’t know you lived here!”
She wasn’t too far off ...
When Things Are Out of (Your) Control
Humility is not the opposite of pride. It’s the opposite of anxiety.
You won’t find that definition in Webster’s, but that’s how God’s been speaking to me about it recently.
As a family, we’re planning a big move that we believe God has called us to. But along with that decision comes cartloads of uncertainties. I’ve been ...
Cleanliness Is Next To Craziness
There's plenty to update my blog about, but for now I'll just have to say that my writing bug has been squished a little by a voluminous cleaning effort. We're getting ready to put our house on the market soon, so we're cleaning and organizing, painting and planting.
In other words, we're going bonkers.
Not a state ...
When You’re Not Feeling It
There are those rare occasions when I’m driving all alone in my mini-van – no one’s demanding snacks, asking if we’re “there yet,” or kicking the back of my seat. It’s just me and radio turned up louder than usual. Matthew West comes on the speakers with, “The Motions.”
I belt it out with him:
“I don’t ...
Jesus Knows…Yet Jesus Chose
Recently, I was engaged in one of those privileges of being a mom, i.e. taking out the trash from all the rooms. I was pulling out the plastic trash bag when I spied with my little eye a bunch of kiddie vitamins. Not the yummy gummy-bear kind. Nope. No kid in his right mind would sacrifice those. But the semi-yucky, hard-as-rock Flintstone vitamins. ...
The Wedding Guest
Recently we were invited to a wedding. It was my cousin's Big Fat Indian Wedding - in Phuket, Thailand. I tried to lose weight, shopped for outfits for FIVE different wedding events, matched shoes to each outfit (because what would the world think if I repeated shoes, right?) and made sure I was primped, plucked and ...
The Grasshopper Syndrome
We’ve all been there. That uncomfortable, sometimes even threatening place, where we feel insignificant, insecure and downright invisible. Maybe it’s an interview for a job where you feel underqualified. Maybe it’s as innocuous as a party where you don’t know a soul and everyone else looks like they stepped off Page 3 of the local ...
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