Opportunity is a theme of mine for 2012, so I thought I’d use the word as part of the A2Z meme this week. Opportunities Taken: Surrendering my angry, bitter, me-first self to Christ. Marrying my husband and enjoying his two children. Believing God for motherhood. Giving a tribute to my dad, the last conversation he was able to have before his passing. Writing my doctor to alert him that his [...]
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This is a re-post from May 2011, the Saturday before Mother’s Day. Tomorrow can range in several scenarios. I remember as a kid riding down a country road seeing a woman pushing a lawnmower. She looked hot and tired and what I remember the most was who was watching—a man I guessed to be her husband. As a child I thought why should she be doing that? Isn’t it Mother’s [...]
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I’m not someone to freely display their emotions. When my now husband proposed I wasn’t the one screaming and calling my parents, it was my roommate. But once I opened the door of my wounded heart and invited Christ inside, the Lord and I started a journey. For those that see Him as uncaring and angry—I know your heart. Because it was mine. Especially after I made “progress” and suffered [...]
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I’m a couple days late but moving forward with Patty Wysong’s weekly meme of going through the alphabet. This week? The Letter E. It was 1997 or 98. I had a couple years of marriage under my belt and was overwhelmed by post partum blues with my firstborn. We were at a new church, reeling from antics board members pulled on the third pastor of the previous congregation. I kept [...]
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This is a post I’ve tackled before but I’ve switched my blog server around enough that it’s something I thought I’d revisit. Earlier this month I confessed that I used to hate January 2nd. One year I had a $12,000 car accident while 10 weeks into a high risk pregnancy. Four years later, I learned on January 2 day I miscarried. Last year I wrote about how it took me [...]
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The A2Z meme continues with the letter B. His name even begins with a “B” but I won’t reveal it here for his privacy. But he’s my firstBORN, a BOY, and definitely a miracle BABY. If I listened to man, he wouldn’t even be here. Because of a severe case of PCOS, my doctor was kind enough to take the time to explain everything, including my probable infertility. He ended [...]
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