I Give You Permission

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What is it with our culture that we have to pretend that everything is OK and the world is just ducky?

Seriously. Who’s with me?

I have been in more than one conversation over the last couple of weeks where I have been told to basically suck it up and move on.

Really?

I am the mom of a special needs child.

There. I said it. And it isn’t easy to say.

My challenge in this reality is he basically appears to be like any other

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A Love Like This

The last two days have been out to get me. All those little annoying life interruptions seem to have been stored up just for the past 48 hours. I locked my keys in my car and had to wait for a locksmith in the parking lot after work. I work in the hood. The dog ate something off the ground at the bus stop and I had to fish it out of his mouth. I’m pretty sure it was a half eaten candy. Work has been crazier than ever, the

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Embracing The Moments

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Recently my friend Jocelyn and I have been talking about ‘rest’ – abiding in Him and not striving so much to ‘do’ but allowing ourselves to ‘be’ what God longs for and designed for us to be – in communion with Him.

It all comes down to trust doesn’t it?

In another conversation my friend Libby reminded me that “anxiety equals cheapened grace”. Is His grace not sufficient for whatever we face? She also said we should “embrace the moments rather than imagining the

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