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So Blessed… AND So Overwhelmed
I am loving my blessed life…ANDI am utterly exhausted and overwhelmed every single day. I love my life. I love to share the moments that I feel most alive and most free…ANDI also spend a lot of time feeling like I want to crawl out of my skin. Literally. It’s a horrid feeling. I don’t… Continue reading
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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
20th anniversary, 25th Anniversary, anniversary, blessed, both/and, commitment, compassion, Dear Younger Me, depression, divorce, empathy, freedom, God, God is near, goodness of God, grateful, grief, growth, healing, hope, journey, Joy, light into darkness, love, Parenting, peace, perspective, reflections, thanks, trauma, younger me, younger self -
Dear Younger Me – Happy Birthday
Dearest Baby Elizabeth… Oh my, how little you were! Mom says you had red hair when you were born (was that the first clue that you’ll have a fire inside of you that will never go out?), but it will quickly transition to a very, very blonde. For the next 20+ years, being known and… Continue reading
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Gratitude
It’s Thanksgiving morning as I write. All but one of my children are here in my home, and a couple significant others are enjoying this week with us as well. And this morning, I am grateful. I am grateful for my children. I am grateful that all of them are choosing to maintain a relationship… 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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