Posted on November 1, 2016
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Today’s guest blog post is written by my lifelong friend, Tori Walker Kirk. Watching her journey has been inspiring and filled me with gratitude. When I read that Bethany needed people to write gratitude posts for her blog, something inside me screamed, “Do it”! …
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Posted on November 21, 2013
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*Thanks to my friend Brandon Davidson for serving as the guest writer for Day 21 of the Dear Gratitude project. His post is guaranteed to make you laugh. It will probably cause you to pause and give thanks for all the people and circumstances…
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Posted on November 18, 2013
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*Day 18 of the Dear Gratitude project is really special; my former boss and friend, Jenny Cannon, shares her reflections on her decision to forgo having an amniocentesis procedure prior to delivering her daughter, Claire, who was diagnosed with Down syndrome at birth.* It…
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Posted on July 6, 2013
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My boyfriend in college once told me that I reminded him of the female character in a Celtic song who was forever “chasing cannonballs.” He was right. I have been notorious for stubbornly making my own decisions. I often refer to this tendency as…
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Gratitude rarely actually changes things. Not in my life, anyway. Things stay the same. Circumstances come and go, as all circumstances do. My family members who irk me continue to irk me. The one who never says “I love you” may never say “I…
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* Big thanks to my best friend, MeLissa Horseman, for today’s post. She may have never wanted children, but she’s become one of the best moms I know.* I never thought I wanted children. I barely thought I wanted to get married, let alone…
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Posted on February 27, 2013
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*Thank you, LaDonna Busby, for writing today’s post and for being a daily blessing in so many lives.* Many people have told of meeting someone and having that “love at first sight” feeling. Not that I doubted them, but I just never thought it…
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Posted on February 10, 2013
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*Big thank you to my friend Kelly Booy for agreeing to contribute to the “28 days of love” project!* I have had a consistent prayer for contentment these last couple of years! My awareness of this need came one summer day in 2009 while…
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Posted on December 29, 2012
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Recently I wrote a blog post for my personal blog, My 2012 gift list, and listed the most significant gifts I received in 2012. I didn’t list tangible objects or even relationships on the list–I limited my gift list to the intangible yet priceless…
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Posted on November 8, 2012
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There’s a saying amongst my friends in recovery that has held true for me in many different situations: until I’m sick and tired enough of being sick and tired, I won’t be ready to do things differently. In my life, this truth has proven…
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