Shared Blessings & Friendship (give away too!)

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“Hello?…Hello?…”

I didn’t recognize the local number on my phone, and while I heard voices in the background, no one responded. I nearly hung up, but then I heard a sweet voice I would recognize in a choir of thousands.

“Mama? You forgot to put my lunch in my backpack.” My first grader was calling from her classroom. The voice in the background had been her teacher prompting her to start talking.

“I did? I am so sorry! I thought for sure it was in your backpack.” I

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A Love Like This

This morning I was singing to Beyoncé in the car. Loud. Because sometimes I have a fever for some good ol’ R&B and the only prescription is to jam it out to my girl B. As I was driving to work, singing at the top of my lungs I started pretending. Pretending that instead of driving on Interstate 264, I was at Madison Square Gardens, everyone clapping for me and my powerhouse voice. Pretending that they asked me to sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl. Pretending that it

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Missing the Bus

Recalling your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with you. I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded now lives in you also. For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 2 Timothy 1:6 (NIV)

 I had a very vivid and most unusual dream last night. I was with a group of people

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