Community begins at home
November 21st, 2012
The snow crunched under my feet. I paused outside the heavy glass doors. The playground was eerily quiet, the lull before the storm of five to seven-year-olds about to invade. Slices of bread hung by yarn on a tree, flapping in the wind, awaiting hungry birds. I took a deep breath of the frigid, fresh ...
Filed under: faith in action, Family, Little Miss Sunshine
Circle of Friends Radio
August 2nd, 2011
*Update – Today’s radio interview is now at the bottom of this post. Several weeks ago I had the privilege of recording several radio interviews with Circle of Friends Ministries in Ohio. We had a wonderful time in the studio getting to know each other and sharing our hearts. Yesterday, an interview with me and ...
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Young Love Letters – Part 30, the finale!
March 25th, 2011
Links for the entire series here! The surprises kept coming that day. I had contacted my dear old high school buddy Tony about possibly playing the piano for our ceremony, but he wasn’t going to be in town that weekend. The morning of the wedding, we were in for a surprise when word came in ...
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Young Love Letters – Part 29
March 23rd, 2011
Miss some of the series? Get caught up here! *This is part 1 of the series finale – the wedding! I think there’s only one more post left! The day of our wedding dawned clear and sunny. We had a 2 p.m. wedding planned – strategically so we wouldn’t have to provide a meal! Ked ...
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Young Love Letters – Part 28
March 22nd, 2011
Miss a few? Get caught up here! Somehow I managed to focus on finishing the semester before heading home for a whirlwind couple months of wedding planning. I was never one of those girls who dreamt about my wedding day and cut out pictures and had all the details planned out years in advance. In ...
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Young Love Letters – part 27
March 21st, 2011
Miss a few? Find links to all previous stories in the series here. We returned to college after spring break, excited to officially announce our engagement. Cornerstone University has had a long-standing tradition for celebrating engagements called the candlelight ceremony. We weren’t the only ones who got engaged over spring break, and we had to ...
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Young Love Letters – part 26
March 20th, 2011
Missed a few? Get caught up here, with links all from one page now! The spring semester seemed to fly by, and as we approached spring break, I still didn’t have a ring on my finger. I was getting a bit nervous that I might walk down the aisle and still not have a diamond ...
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Young Love Letters – part 25
March 14th, 2011
We talked about marriage consistently through the fall semester, and the closer we got to Christmas break, the more we dreaded the looming summer separation. Over Christmas break, Ked came down to Lima for a few days. The details are fuzzy with age, but I remember going out one evening and having a long talk ...
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Young Love Letters – part 24
March 11th, 2011
When I returned to college that summer, a dark cloud settled over my life. The insomnia of the summer hadn’t fully gone away, and I suffered a general sinking hopelessness. I was upset with myself that I couldn’t shake the darkness. After all, I had no real reason for feeling so depressed. I’d had a ...
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Young Love Letters – part 23
March 10th, 2011
It worked out that I was able to take one week off from camp that summer to attend the national FCM conference which was being held in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the first time. Ked made the drive up north to pick me up for the week, and my parents would be meeting us at ...