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Nothing Left

I screamed. Maybe it was more of a loud, defeated, groan. But that’s just how I feel. Absolutely defeated. Cosette was complaining about dirty shoes. Baeces was crying because his feet were muddy. Jaxon emptied the contents of his cubby and scattered them around the floor. Ewan was soaking wet and needed to be changed. Yuna was in her pull […]

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Five Years

I cried on my way to work as I drove up the street and looked out at the mountains. It was as if they were glowing- shimmering even. The way the light hit them and the clouds just barely rolled over the tops. It was beautiful, and I thought to myself, “Wow five years of this.” Then I cried again […]

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Is This the End?

May 21st 2014. I posted the first picture I took as soon as getting off the plane, and I captioned it “Fell in love the minute I stepped off the plane. Sorry mom and dad, but I don’t think I’m ever going back home.” And little did I realize then how true that statement would be. Because fast forward seven […]

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Easter Sunday

“He is not here. He has risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay.” Matthew 28:6 He is risen. It’s such a commonly used Christian phrase that it’s almost second nature to faith, but when you really think about it, it has such incredible implications. Declaring that Jesus is risen shouldn’t just roll off your […]

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Holy Saturday

“When the centurion, who was standing opposite Him, saw the way He breathed His last breath, he said, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God!’” Mark 15:39 It’s over two thousand years later and we know now what they did not know then- in that moment. We read our bibles and we know that Jesus rose from the dead. […]