Birthdays means so much more these days. Every day means more than before the dreaded “c” word was spoken, which, ironically, makes the word not so dreadful. I almost didn’t…
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The Most Important Kind of Joint Pain
Been having some body aches and joint pain, Kiddo, (alright, so you’re a whopping 28 today—for real?—no longer a kiddo to the world, but always to me) and the early…
Read moreWhy We All Need to Smile a Little More
Good morning, Birthday Boy! So I woke up remembering how you just about choked me silly on the beach this summer, made me laugh like a mama’s not supposed…
Read moreWhen We Choose to Love
For Dillon, on wedding day, July 29th, 2016. It was a love story from the start, my Boy— In the beginning, God created … us to love. He set galaxies in…
Read moreWhen All We Need to Do Is Wait
She just about didn’t make it. And Doc says changes in weather on a dog worn by time can be deadly and now she’s half-hardly hanging on ……
Read moreWhen Birthday Boys Become Men
So you moved out and a mountain of hurt moved in. And I didn’t think you would go or it would come like that. But it did. And it…
Read moreBirthday Wishes Made Real
(Penned Sept. 24, 2015) So we know how it really went down, don’t we, my Boy. And you at twenty-two still want me to cut your hair, and I still…
Read moreThe Branch and The Vine
The Branch and The Vine He came from Home on Heaven’s throne To walk this sod for me. The humble climb, that mighty Vine, He made with rugged tree.…
Read moreWhen Grace Finds Us . . .
Sure was a fine morning in church, even though I kept noticing our twenty-one-year-old’s head bobbing and was that a drip of drool I saw there? Didn’t I raise him…
Read moreMade for Something More
We were all made for more you know. There’s this pulling-and-releasing Spirit thing inside each of us. Tugging us to fall into His plan and releasing our frustrations when we do.…
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