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Our community lost a dear member this past week. There is a big hole in our congregation; one that many of us have pondered in conversation how it will be filled? I spent time watching the eclipse this week which happened to be on the same day she passed. The world faded to gray for just a moment. I burned my retina trying to see what was happening. Between waiting
I love receiving letters about the book, comments on the blog, and interacting with audiences at different events. Since the book has come out a funny thing has happened. I’ve been able to rest into the message as a vocational stamp on my life as well as laugh and cry with other perfectionists trying to find recovery from the madness. However, there is another introspective anomaly that happens when I
Posted in Home.Food.Garden
Tagged a beautiful mess, Community, health, Homestead, perfection, Self-Care, spirituality, transitions, Women's ministry, Writing
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This week last year I had just returned from my family’s home in the Pacific Northwest. My grandfather has passed away weeks earlier and this was the first holiday without him. My relatives and I were adjusting to the new era, one ushered in by death’s reminder that the kids are now adults and the adults on their way to grandparenthood. This is not to be morbid or say they
Posted in Homesteading
Tagged a beautiful mess, emotions, health, perfection, transitions
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I have a confession. I have been in a dysfunctional relationship for the past three and a half years. It started one afternoon with my heart beating out of control and it has been a love/hate relationship ever since. When things are in sync life seems bright and possibilities endless. However, when there are long wrestling matches, I wind up jaded and broken, tired and hurt. While tackling this relationship
Posted in Thoughts on life
Tagged a beautiful mess, Body Image, health, perfection, Self-Care
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