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Christmas Lists
I love making lists. And I’ve been making a lot of them lately. To-do lists, grocery lists, lists of goals, and especially Christmas lists of gifts, and party planning, and elf-like stuff. I think one...
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Checking Jesus off my List
Yesterday morning I tried to check Jesus off my to-do list. This happens in seasons of stress and busyness (are there any seasons of not-stress-and-busyness??). I check him off by giving Him a nod...
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What to do With Stress
I love being busy. I thrive on more, but these days we’re a little over the top. We leave today for a board meeting in London for 9 days (two weeks before our daughter gets married). Yesterday, in...
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Three Things You Can do When You’re in Transition
Twenty-seven years ago my husband John and I moved from our home and families in the Chicago area to serve at a church in Washington D.C. It was a huge change for us. John was required to attend a...
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5 Questions to Ask When You’re “CRAZY Busy”
“We’ve just been so CRAZY busy!” I have a friend whose emails contain this phrase along with profuse apologies about her perpetual stress level almost every single time she writes me. Sometimes I want...
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Yoga, and One Goal for Advent
Confession: I skipped church yesterday. I didn’t skip because I wanted to have brunch with friends, or catch an early football game. It’s just that I had been with people constantly last week over...
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Preparing to Prepare for Jesus
So I thought I was doing so much better with the jet-lag thing this time around, but maybe not. This morning I was awake at 4:00, up at 4:30 and out the door at 5:00. Problem is my Starbucks doesn’t...
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You’re One Breath Away From a Peace-filled Advent
This is a post I edit and reprint every year because I need it. Hope it’s helpful to you too. I really wish I liked Yoga more. It’s healthy. And it’s so in. But I’m not crazy about it. Here are the...
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4 Ideas for Navigating Change
“It’s coming. I can feel it.” That’s the refrain I hear too often these August days as the light mellows earlier in the evening and green things have lost their luster. Everything looks a little dry...
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The One Thing About Yoga that Helps My Christmas
I really wish I liked Yoga more. It’s healthy. And it’s so in. But I’m not crazy about it. Here are the only things I like about Yoga: the comfy pants that are like legal pajamas, the fact that you...
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