Normal (FMF Link Up)

Normal... Why be normal? I wore that pin on my jacket upside down proudly until my cousin pointed out that everyone wore that pin that way. After that stage had passed of wanting to be "weird", apparently the way everyone else did, I started craving normal. I didn't know there wasn't such a thing. I …

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Refrain (FMF Link Up)

Refrain... my first thought was the negative definition of refrain, not doing something, but my next thought was of refrain as in a response in a liturgy, or a chorus in a song. As with many people lately, I have been trying to get outside and enjoy the Spring. I am watching and waiting for …

Distraction (FMF Link Up)

Distraction... I laughed when I saw the word. That is my life, and this pandemic has not helped. I am the quintessential joke of the woman cleaning a room and then leaving it to put something away, and then seeing something else, and starting that, and so on, only to get to the end of …

Perspective (FMF Link Up)

Perspective...It is so easy to be so close to a situation, or so caught up in it that we lose perspective. Everything kind of gets blurry and things look different than they really are. Sometimes things seem so much bigger, and other things so much smaller than in reality they are. The important thing with …

Another (FMF Link Up)

Another... There is another narrative flowing throughout all time and history that is truer than any story being told. God is making all things new. He is in the process of redeeming and restoring this world. The narrative of the world is loud and appears to be the truest because there seems to be so …

Now (FMF Link Up)

Now... Over the past couple of years I have been learning and practicing the discipline of being fully present. I have a deep desire to be fully present to the circumstance and people in the moment. I believe that God asks that of us. As much as we desire the future and yearn for it, …

Tomorrow (FMF Link Up)

Tomorrow...  As with so many people right now, I had plans for tomorrow and for many tomorrows after that. I am a dreamer and adventurer. This Spring there were to be many adventures. And just like everyone else in the world, I watched as one by one each was cancelled. I was reminded of James …

Today

Today... Carpe Diem... Seize the day. This used to be one of my favorite mantras, mostly because of Robin Williams' iconic portrayal of an English teacher in Dead Poet Society, but also because it rang so true with my heart and mind. I wanted to do big things, lead a big life, get the most …

Before (FMF Link Up)

Before... The word of the LORD came to me, saying: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5 For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and …

Risk (FMF Link Up)

Risk... we have a rule at our house that was  implemented kind of as a joke years ago, but it has stuck. Rule 327, "No dying or hospital visits, unless it's a good story". I now have spread that rule to the students in the classrooms I sub in. They ponder it and then seriously …