walking in grace
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Your Favorite Pie?

What’s my favorite kind of pie? Not rhubarb. Anything BUT rhubarb. That’s my favorite. Did you know that the first record of a fruit pie was a cherry pie served to Queen Elizabeth I in the 16th century? Up until then, pies were savory and filled with meat. (I have an almost famous chicken pot… Continue reading
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I’m Not The World’s Greatest Mom

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. C.S Lewis Lewis wasn’t wrong. My heart has been broken over and over through my journey of motherhood. Often by my children. Too often by their heartaches. But more often than not, my heart has suffered as a result of my lousy mothering. Yes. Mother’s Day… Continue reading
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I Stopped Putting God First

Yes. You read that correctly. I might lose friends over this. But… I stopped putting God first in my life. For years, “Keep God First” was a well-intentioned mantra for many of my friends and me. We said it often. We wrote it a lot. And we meant it. We did. And J. O. Y.… Continue reading