Mar
8
2022

Unlikely Weapons

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What do you do in the midst of war?
What do you do if the war is not on your doorstep?
War kills, destroys, and dismisses human life as expendable.
War is not a person, but a person or people are behind war.

What do you do?
I have been struggling as I see images and read the news.
I have been sad about the people who are being displaced and who are losing everything.
I have been amazed at the bravery and determination of unlikely heroes.

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Mar
4
2022

The Lampost

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n honor of the tenth anniversary of Whispers Of His Movement, on March 6, I am sharing my second Whisper published in 2012. This is a personal story that is still a tender memory.

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Mar
1
2022

Universal Language

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March 6, 2022 is the 10 year anniversary of Whispers Of His Movement.
In honor of that special day, I am republishing my first two Whispers.
Both were published in March, 2012.
I am so grateful to God for this quiet space to listen to Him together.

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Feb
25
2022

Biff’s World

We needed a part for our heater.
It all began with an email from our electric company.
The email informed us that our bill was going to quite high.
Our usage was up tremendously.

It is just my husband and I at home now.
We are not doing anything different.
There is no extra laundry.
It is not the season for air conditioning.

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Feb
22
2022

Tree Cutting On My Walk

I never wear ear buds.
I don’t even own a pair.
I don’t think I would like the feel of them in my ears.
More than that, I don’t want to miss the sounds all around me.

When I walk each morning, I carry my phone with me.
I pull out the pop socket and get a good grip, so it can record my steps.
I turn on a Bible study podcast that I listen to each morning.
I follow that with a short podcast of daily news.

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Feb
18
2022

Assumptions And Presuppositions

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I met a friend for breakfast.
The restaurant has beautiful canvas photographs on the walls.
Many of the bucolic scenes are from local farms.
Some of the photographs are close-up pictures of animals.

As I put my things into the booth, my friend went to get her coffee.
I looked up at the canvas picture above me.
It was my son’s dog!
The photograph was not actually his dog, but it might as well have been.

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Feb
15
2022

Darkness In The Alcove

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I went to a conference over the weekend.
It was a creativity conference recognizing the importance of collaboration and community.
The conference itself was called The Inklings Conference.
The Inklings were a group of writers who gathered at the University of Oxford.

The group consisted of writers, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Owen Barfield to name a few.
The men met for almost twenty years.
They shared their writing and discussed their works in progress.
Feedback and encouragement were the order of the day.

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Feb
11
2022

The Need To Be Heard

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Toddler-hood is a wonderfully exciting time.
Toddler-hood is also exhausting and not for the faint of heart.
I have been through the toddler years five times with each of my children.
I am now watching it from a different perspective with my grandchildren.

There is potty training during these toddler years.
There is training in manners.
There is training in patience, which can be a tough concept for a toddler to learn.
The world revolves around the toddler, according to them.

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Feb
8
2022

Access

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I was a few rows behind her.
She was in her mother’s arms as we were all singing at church.
I would guess that she was about five years old.
Her mother lifted her so she could see a bit better.

If truth be told, her mother lifted her because there will come a time when she will be too big.
There will come a time when this will be in the rear view mirror.
But for now, it was special to them.
It was a sweet thing to witness from my perspective.

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Feb
4
2022

Good Old Days

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My husband carried the book into the kitchen.
I forgot I had this, he said, opening it on the kitchen island.
It was a book with the name of the company he worked with for forty years on the cover.
It was a book that was published when the company changed its name twenty-two years ago.

Look at this, he said.
He showed me a page with very neat penmanship in the margin.
It was written by his father.
His father had worked at the same company many years ago.

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