turn on the light

Are you walking into a dark room?
Turn the light on!
And if you don’t turn it on, don’t ask for sympathy when you stub a toe on the chair leg.
Are you at a dark campsite?
Turn the flashlight on!
And if you don’t turn it on, don’t cry for sympathy after you fall in a hole.
 
Do you have [...]

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good elves in Dallas

God knows what he is doing.  I have a good story from this weekend in my head, and until it gets committed to paper (or pixels) it will continue to percolate at the front of my mind.  God knows this about me and He knows that I needed to keep those highlights from the weekend [...]

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somewhere there is a man…..

Somewhere there is a man…
Who is cursing my name.
How do I know?  Well.  There is a story.
A couple of weeks ago Atlanta had a flood. You may have heard about it.  Creeks and rivers washed over bridges, roads fell apart.  Every where if a road was low lying, it was swamped.
Two days after the flood, [...]

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renewing the gratitude list

months ago I was posting a list of ten things to be grateful for every week.
Sometimes it was simple stuff, like oatmeal cookies.
Sometimes I tried to be profound.
I got lazy after a while and stopped posting those lists.
Well today, in the face of my husband losing his job to the concept of  “reductions in force”  [...]

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the 24/7 bible study

My friend Missy just posted a series about Bible studies.  About how she has been trained to lead them properly and how frustrating is it to sit in a study that someone else is leading and have thoughts flitting through her head like “I would be keeping this discussion on track”  But the point of [...]

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well hail did freeze over…

Okay. This weekend went better than I expected on a number of fronts.
First off I took out that wretched pony tail while I was still at work on Friday.  I went to the bathroom armed with a hairbrush and an iron determination that I would come out of there with hair that looked at least [...]

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don’t cross the screams..I mean streams

I was getting bogged down (or is that blogged down?) in the search for a new blog name.
All kinds of creative things were percolating around in my busy brain.  I knew I liked the water/bridge motiff.  I really liked the stream idea, since they are such a great metafore for life.  Water, the Holy Spirit, [...]

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no more scream?

I am torn about this.  I want to change the name of my blog, but I don’t want to lose people who know the screamofcontinuousness name.
On the other hand you would not believe how many people just don’t understand.  They see that name whenever I leave a comment and they make a snap judgment about [...]

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mom-cuts….aren’t

I want my long hair back.
Frankly I could just strangle all the people who ganged together to convince me that short hair was the best choice I could make as a new mother.
What was I thinking?
let’s walk through this, slowly.
Back when I had long hair I had lots of different, elegant looks available to me.  [...]

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in-take and out-go

nope this is NOT a post about the economy or my personal finances.
This is just a note to say that Ginny is doing okay still.  The breathing treatments are helping with that aspect of her sickness.
She still doesn’t have a fever, so that’s good news.
But she had some eating troubles yesterday.  Well….not so much trouble [...]

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