Prayer Request

I just got an email from my uncle with an update on my aunt, who was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. Initially things looked like she’d be OK, but further testing has revealed stage 3 cancer. The cancer has penetrated through the interior walls of the colon into the lining. It was also found in [...]

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God is Good

OK. One more thing to share before taking that break. I worshipped God today – taking my sinful broken self to the throne – and He spoke to my heart.
First a woman stood up and read Psalm 46:10 and spoke:
“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I [...]

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One Other “Accomplishment”

Well, I discovered shortly after writing the last post that I managed another accomplishment this week: severely offending and upsetting two fellow bloggers. I apparently did a miserable job in the communication department and was totally and completely misunderstood. I have attempted to apologize and set things right again, so far to no avail. One of [...]

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An Accomplished Week

. . . If I may say so myself.

Today completed three straight weeks of daily exercise! Whoo hoo! I’m doing an Intermediate Pilates DVD (with Ana Caban) about 3 days a week, and in-home walking the other 2 (Walk the Walk with Leslie Sansone) - or a shorter Pilates workout on the DVD. It feels great!!!
Today completed our first [...]

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Take Me Out to the Ballgame!

 
Baseball, hot dogs . . . all we needed was some apple pie! It was military appreciation night at our local Minor League baseball park and we’d been given free tickets (you can’t beat that!). So, once I finished my panic attack from the previous post, we headed out to the ballgame.
This was B’s first game [...]

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Unbelievably Horrifying

All parents need to be aware of the growing community discussed in this NY Times article. Unfortunately, you have to register (free) in order to read the article. I wasn’t sure if it was OK to post the contents here.
I am absolutely horrified by what I read. I have already experienced anxiety over the thought [...]

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Trans-racial Adoption – Tough Stuff

Well, since I introduced this subject while talking about our worship decisions, I’ll go ahead and discuss it further. Let me first point out that this is not something we sought out for our family. We wrestled with ourselves and each other, and our counselors over how to answer the questions on the forms that [...]

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A Musician That Continues to Touch and Inspire Me

I have had it in the back of my mind for some time that I would do some posts on my favorite musician who is no longer with us. For many reasons, that has been put off- until now. As I was reading through some of my favorite blogs MacDaddyhad done just such a post [...]

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Books to Read: Transracial Adoption

Here are some books to read on the subject introduced towards the end of my previous post:

In Their Own Voices (Paperback)
by Rita J. Simon, Rhonda M. Roorda

Inside Transracial Adoption (Hardcover)
by Gail Steinberg, Beth Hall

I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World (Paperback)
by Marguerite Wright
These I have read, but need to go back [...]

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Adventures in Worship

Finally, we have visited the same church two weeks in a row! Since we left VA on July first, we have visited a different church each week. And that has been a difficult adventure with B.
First Sunday: teeny, tiny town in Illinois, visiting G’s aunt. We attended the church she and G’s dad grew up [...]

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