I am excited to share my Spring Break Bookstack with you. Nothing makes me happier than losing myself in a good story. A book finds a place on my permanent bookshelf if its characters continue to live inside my head and heart long after the final page, or if the
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This week begins Lent, the 40-day journey to celebrating Easter. This may surprise you but I am not recommending giving up dark chocolate. I have another idea! Look for God and any little bit of holy in your mundane, ordinary life and watch what happens!
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There are so many beautiful things in creation waiting to be discovered. Witnessing the sandhill crane migration two weeks ago filled me with wonder and served as a reminder that God built me, like the sandhill crane, to do courageous things. God also guarantees my soul a holy flight pattern
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Most Sundays after church I make a big pot of chicken soup to start off the week. All the chopping of celery, onions, carrots, leeks and fresh herbs is a labor of love that means a lot to my family. My oldest son Charlie will ask me to make my
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This Fall, I visited family in my home state at a beach enclave called Debordieu, or as we say in South Carolina, “Debidue.” In 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette, traveling from France visited the coast of S.C. and proclaimed he had discovered D’abord Dieu, “the borderland of God.” I believe we
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For me, living soulfully happens most often in my kitchen and sitting around my wide-planked, extra large dining room table. I am happiest tied in an apron, a recipe stirring the imagination, a colorful pastiche of fresh vegetables and herbs at arm's reach, maybe a roasted chicken in the oven
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