grief
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Dear Younger Me – Wedding Day
August 11, 2001 ~ 25 Years Later Look at you, beautiful girl… so young, so naive, so innocent… so full of hopes and dreams and love and light… The guests are here. The decorations are up. The pastor is waiting. You are preparing to walk down that aisle. And looking back on today, 25 years… Continue reading
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Dear Younger Me – High School Graduation
Twenty-seven years ago today I graduated from high school. There were 11 of us that graduated from Oklahoma Academy in the class of ’99. We were the last graduating class of the 1900’s… What would I say to that girl if I could go back in time? Dear Elizabeth – congratulations! You’re leaving the safety… Continue reading
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Solo Roadtrip!
I am in love. 🥰 Learning to love the life we have can be challenging. Life often sends things our way that we never wanted or asked for. And that can leave us feeling slighted, bitter, in denial, or even angry. Life isn’t fair. But feeling God’s presence makes the impossible possible. Having a support… Continue reading
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Embracing the “Both/ And”
Happy. Sad. Fabulous. Anxious. Grieved. Excited. Lonely. Terrific. Devastated. Calm. Discouraged. Joyful. Blah. We might choose any one of these or other words to describe how we are feeling on any given day. My younger self would have only thought to pick one. My less-younger self had started to realize that I could feel more… Continue reading
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Three Years…
Some pivotal or traumatic events become a blur in our memories, or we even end up with gaps and holes in our memories surrounding that event. Other times that pivotal or traumatic event is seared into our memories in explicit detail. Time slows down, details typically overlooked are now glaring and bold. For me, December… Continue reading
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