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Life Resides in God’s Rhythms

Before each school year begins, I set aside time to reevaluate priorities and begin designing the yearly schedule. As I contemplate the months ahead, God keeps bringing me back to the reality that He has provided humanity with certain…

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Patiently Renewed

You don’t have to do everything at once. In fact, you can’t. Neither the grand dreams, nor the quotidian tasks of laundry and dishes and the endless taming of clutter. No- Everything on that subconscious – or not –…

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Remnants and Signposts

Let go of the desperate impulse to rush through today. The frantic shallowness of breath will not complete anything any faster. But deep breaths of peace will help each moment be relished, experienced, savored. So breathe. And feel. And…

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Keeping Place by Jen Pollock Michel

I often struggle to find the significance within the repetitive tasks that haunt and taunt my days. When your family of 6 resides in a home-base that is school-base and work-base as well, a clean house is an ever-elusive…

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Embracing the Rhythm of Winter

A yellow paper crown upon my head, I sit aloft in my climate-controlled world and mock winter from behind double-paned sheets of glass. The foolishness of winter confounds me. Trees, plants, flowers, animals boycotting productivity in favor of dormant…