Let it drain away

Let it drain away

My pastor made a statement recently which was incredibly powerful and profound:   “You can either have your bitterness or your grandchildren, but you can’t have both.”   He was preaching on forgiveness.   He had not started his sermon intending…
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Soft but not smooshy

Soft but not smooshy

I have not eaten avocados much throughout my life, so I am not an avocado aficionado.   My daughter, on the other hand, eats avocados all the time.   Therefore, she is very knowledgeable about such things.   In my endeavors…
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Making memories in the storm

Making memories in the storm

Hubby and I had planned to walk a nature trail with our daughter Sunday afternoon.   We had been looking forward to this all week.   This was our daughter’s favorite walking trail near her home, and she had been…
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Yellow is just as good as bright pink

Yellow is just as good as bright pink

I ended the last blog post with the question:  “If your life was an airplane elevation color, at what elevation level with God would you be?”   In answering that question personally for myself, my immediate “blink” reaction was: …
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Elevation levels

Elevation levels

Being new to the flight tracking website (“adsb-exchange”) it was completely lost on me that the different colors of the airplanes had any significance at all.   The planes coming across our backyard at a southwest diagonal are always…
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Backtracking the path of our life

Backtracking the path of our life

Hubby and I were sitting out in the yard enjoying one of the very last nice days of summer.  Hubby was busy doing something math-y on the computer, while I was preoccupied on my phone watching all the…
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Not alone

Not alone

Hubby got the news that he needed to travel for work to Philadelphia.   It was a real blow to both of us!   This current season of caregiving for aging parents has been really difficult!   Even though it had…
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You never know who is watching your life.

You never know who is watching your life.

Usually in September there is a fighter-jet flyover for the opening games of the University of Washington Huskies football season.   Without fail, hubby and I will be hanging out around the house and …  “Whooooosh!!”  …  there go…
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Lessons from Caregiving

Lessons from Caregiving

In my current season of caregiving for aging parents I now find myself on my hands and knees each day washing out incontinence pads.   At first, I was running them through my washing machine each day.   But they…
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