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    Why start a blog??

    I have thought about starting my own blog for a few years now.  I briefly blogged for a local news site, and had one article published in the local newspaper, but life with little kids was busy — crazy busy — like it was impossible to carve out the time to do both well.  Something had to give, and I knew it couldn’t be my attention to my kids.  So I gave up something that I enjoyed doing because I knew that the timing was off.  I’m happy that I did that — no regrets. But recently, I began finding myself doing crazy things to express myself, like spending 30 minutes…

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    And So It Begins…

    Every story has a beginning.  On the day that I was born, my husband was walking down the aisle with his second grade class to receive his First Communion.  We grew up in  in different states, on opposite shores of Lake Michigan, but one day, almost exactly twenty four years after I was born, we would meet. I remember once staring out across the expansive Lake Michigan, wondering who the man was that God had in mind for me.  There is a part of me that wonders if John was staring out on the other side of that lake right back at me, wondering the same thing.  The thing is, God is…