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Hidden Wonders

April 17, 2021April 17, 2021 Kristen 0 Comments #Godthisweek, #hidden, #hiddenbeauty, #mountainliving, #wildturkeys

This photo should show something other than an empty mountain road. I saw a wonder here that I have never seen before even though I’ve lived here since I was eight-years-old. I didn’t have my camera and so I have no proof.

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The Awkward Beauty of Spring

March 27, 2021March 28, 2021 Kristen 0 Comments #camasmeadows, #cascademountians, #spring

While my friends from the west side of our state are posting photos of flowers, budding trees, and honeybees; spring

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True Poverty

February 20, 2021February 20, 2021 Kristen 0 Comments #godslove, #help, #meandgod, #poverty

What broke my heart was that the very sign that distracted that man, spelled out his need.

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The Many Shades of Grief

January 23, 2021January 23, 2021 Kristen 0 Comments #death, #deathofalovedone, #dying, #grieving, #joy, #seeingdeath, #sorrow

I have watched three people die.

Last week, it was sitting by my grandfather’s bed singing hymns. Watching his chest rise and fall in labored breathing.

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Tall Love

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 Kristen 0 Comments #parentingteens, #respectingteens, #talllove, #teenagesons, #teencare, #teendiscipline, #teenssoar

A tall love does not brainwash. A tall love is not a mechanic doing basic maintenance on three mindless robots. A tall love is more like a park ranger, tending vast and wild landscapes of incredible beauty and value.

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All Smashed Together

December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 Kristen 0 Comments #boymom, #christmas, #godwithus, #mess, #pain, Immanuel

Before I could share with my husband and receive a loving hug of encouragement, our youngest shoved past my writing chair and pounded his fist on the bathroom door. Snarls or rage and pain answered back and I knew that our middle son must have been putting in his contacts at that exact moment, stabbing himself in the eye … again.

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The Altar

December 5, 2020October 30, 2020 Kristen 0 Comments #altar, #everydayfaith, #prayer, #seekinggod

It is humble. The crowded coffee table is at my right, a stack of laundry baskets boiling over with clean cloths is at my left, and my writing chair is just behind me. Sometimes the dog creeps into it and I have to shoo her away before I write. Nonetheless, in the quiet darkness of the early morning, after I study God’s word but before I open my computer to write, I kneel.

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March 6, 2016March 5, 2016 Kristen 0 Comments

The time had come. With tears in his voice, Sweet Boy#3 asked me to look for a new home for

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December 9, 2015December 5, 2015 Kristen 0 Comments

I prayed one of those dangerous prayers this week. One of the kind that you are not sure you want

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Water Dog

July 7, 2015July 8, 2015 Kristen 0 Comments

Our New Pup is interested in the kids playing in the horse trough. She is the answer to a years

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