Posted on October 19, 2016
by bethanymwallace
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Recently, one of my friends reached out to me to inform me that she’d been viciously attacked by her boyfriend (now ex). She described the bruises, and she admitted she felt scared for her life. “You were right about him.” In the pit of my…
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Category: gratitudeTags: 12 steps, abuse, acceptance, addiction, alcoholism, being right, being wrong, Christianity, friendship, God, lessons learned, life, love, peace, recovery, relationships, serenity, suicide, truth
Posted on April 26, 2015
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Today’s post is the first in what I hope to be a series of post by friends and guest contibutors on the topic of Mother’s Day and all things related. Big thanks to my guest writer today, blogger and former Arkansan Kambri Davidson, who…
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Category: gratitudeTags: addiction, alcoholism, anger, blogging, children, church, decision making, domestic violence, drug, forgiveness, God, grateful, gratitude, Jesus, Kambri Davidson, Katchup with Kambri, love, mama, marriage, mom, mother, Mother's Day, motherhood, obstacles, overdosing, parenting, prayer, resentment, sister, thankful, writing
Posted on September 16, 2014
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*One of my students, Jared Tickner, in Comp II this semester gave me permission to share this essay with all of you. This is his first essay for the semester; I read it after reading a stack of other essays that were good essays…
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Category: gratitudeTags: abandonment, abuse, addiction, alcoholism, Andrea Hollander, assignment, attempted suicide, belief, breaking the cycle, broken, broken chain, children, choices, Comp II, Creator, credo, depression, destiny, essay, father, fear, golden ticket, golden ticket essay, growth, influence, Jared Tickner, letting go of the past, life choices, life purpose, loss, love, murder, nature versus nurture, pain pills, parenting, prison, purpose, redemption, stigma, success, suicide, writing
Posted on November 25, 2013
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Day 25 in the Dear Gratitude project is submitted by yours truly :). Dear Need, I first remember meeting you, Need, when my father fell from his heroic platform in my mind. Grappling with drug addiction, he stood in our living room in Augusta,…
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Category: gratitudeTags: 1984, 2013 gratitude project, addiction, babies, blessings, children, college, dad, Dear Gratitude project, dental hygiene, dependency on God, divorce, drug addiction, family, father, gifts, God, grateful, gratitude, higher education, hope, Kansas, love, mom, motherhood, naomi shihab nye, need, needs and wants, parenting, poverty, recovery, sisters, spirituality, thankful, thanksgiving, The traveling onion, tornado, welfare, Wichita
Posted on July 19, 2013
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I’ve said NEVER about plenty of things. And eaten my words plenty of times, too. “I will NEVER get divorced.” Done. Twice. “I am NEVER going to be one of those people who moves back to the middle of nowhere as an adult!” Done….
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Category: gratitudeTags: addiction, alcoholism, always, always and never, cheating, Christian, Christian school, Christmas sweater, discipline, divorce, education, English, Festivus, God's words, grateful, gratitude, gun violence, guns, high school education, higher education, leggings, Master's degree, never say never, plaigarism, private education, religion, school violence, students, syllabus, teacher, teaching, teaching college, thankful, threats
Posted on February 28, 2013
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I’m very thankful to the guest writers who participated in the “28 days of love” project this month. It’s been inspiring to read about the various ways love and gratitude coincide in so many very different people’s lives. I had guest writers lined up…
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Category: gratitudeTags: 12-step recovery programs, 28 days of love project, addiction, alcoholism, amends, Andrea Hollander Budy, child support, dad, daddy, drug addiction, family, father, father-daughter relationship, flowers, forgiveness, gifts, grateful, gratitude, love, making amends, mother, Peter Abbs, poems, poetry, prison, recovery, relationships, roses, siblings, softball, thankful, the best he could
Posted on October 20, 2012
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Yesterday, a friend and I baked our little hearts out in preparation for my husband’s birthday celebration. While we cored apples and blended spices, we talked about what’s going on in our lives . . . pregnancy woes, impending birth of my daughter, financial…
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Category: gratitudeTags: addiction, Bible, Christianity, control, ducks in a row, faith, filling holes, friendship, God, God-sized, grateful, gratitude, holes, hope, lessons learned, meeting needs, Psalms, recovery, Scripture, trust
Posted on June 16, 2012
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Today, I saw a picture on Facebook (re-posted by a friend) in honor of Father’s Day. The caption read something along the lines of, “Thanks for always being there for me, Dad.” The picture was of a baby, held up to a window, and…
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Category: gratitudeTags: addiction, baby, dad, family, father, Father's Day, grateful, gratitude, hero, motherhood, parenting, recovery, thankful
Posted on February 15, 2012
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Thanks to Linda Unger for sharing her gratitude in today’s post as a guest contributor through her writing and photography gifts. I come from a family where sarcasm rules. I zing you, you zing me. Whoever zings the fastest and the loudest is the…
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