AT THE WATER’S EDGE:
LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
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Summer Vacation Part 3: The Cruise – Ports of Call
To follow up on my previous posts (read Part 1 here and Part 2 here), I wanted to share with you our experiences at each of the ports we stopped at on our cruise. It was a “7-Day Western Caribbean” cruise through Carnival, with four stops along the way: Cozumel, Belize, Roatan and Grand Cayman.…
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Summer Vacation Part 2: The Cruise Ship & Life On Board
If you’ve never been on a cruise, I’ll tell you that it’s a very different sort of vacation than anything else I’ve done. Last week I went on my second cruise. The first time I was twelve. So, needless to say, this experience was a bit different, but every bit as much fun as I…
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The Start of Summer Vacation
We got home last night from a wonderful 10-day vacation. I’m calling it “Summer Vacation” even though it isn’t really summer yet, because it sure felt (and still feels!) like summer…and, “Late Spring Vacation” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. At any rate, we started out our trip with a wedding in Key…
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Thunderstorm
I’m not much of a poet, but in college I had to take a creative writing class which involved writing LOTS of poetry, among other things. One of the poems I wrote was about thunderstorms—where I tried to capture my simultaneous fear and fascination of storms. I do get legitimately freaked out at a big…
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My Relationship with God
A friend of mine asked me a tough question the other day. Tough in the sense that it’s hard to give a concise answer. But it got me pondering. The question posed was this: “What does your relationship with God do for you?” To compound the challenge of trying to be concise, this question was…
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Fruit of the Spirit: Self-Control
Well, I decided it was finally time to finish my Fruit of the Spirit study. We never quite finished it in small group, as we moved on to other topics, but I at least wanted to wrap it up here. We are now down to the last fruit: self-control. What is self-control? I like the…
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Hope, Healing and Restoration
As a Christian, I often turn to God’s word—the Bible—for encouragement, hope and even direction in life. Living life with an autoimmune disease raises lots of questions and fears, and I have no doubt that many often wonder (as I have done) where God’s hand is in all of this. People that don’t know the…
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A Cry for Mercy
As a Christian, I often turn to God’s word—the Bible—for encouragement, hope and even direction in life. Living life with an autoimmune disease raises lots of questions and fears, and I have no doubt that many often wonder (as I have done) where God’s hand is in all of this. People that don’t know the…
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The Thorn in My Flesh
As a Christian, I often turn to God’s word—the Bible—for encouragement, hope and even direction in life. Living life with an autoimmune disease raises lots of questions and fears, and I have no doubt that many often wonder (as I have done) where God’s hand is in all of this. People that don’t know the…
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2011: A Year in Review
It’s a new year, and with that comes a good opportunity to reflect on the past one. While I don’t typically do New Year’s resolutions, I thought it’d be fun to reminisce a little bit and recap some of my life in 2011. Last year, we rang the New Year in down in Florida with…
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