Archive for September, 2009
Tell Me These Things
Yesterday in our book group, we were discussing suffering. Honestly, I haven’t endured a lot of suffering, yet, in this life. Especially not the tragic, life-changes-in-a-moment kind of suffering. But, only the Lord knows if it is coming. I’ve been thinking a lot about what I would want people to tell me if I do [...]
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Jane Addiction
I was first introduced to my friend, Jane (Austen), my junior year in high school when we were required to read Pride and Prejudice (P&P) in my English class. The book quickly became my favorite fiction – and remains so to this day. Over the years, I read her other works and although none replaced P&P at [...]
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“Howie”
Malachi loves Halle, but when he says her name it sounds more like “Howie.” Really cute. Halim took this pic the other night at Halle’s birthday dinner. If you look past Malachi you can see Halle in all her splendor – sunglasses with rhinestone detailing, Cinderella dress-up gown, baby doll in hand. . . all [...]
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Influence
One of John Piper’s Tweets today reads, “The most influential people in the world are those who pray big in Jesus’ name. The second most influential are mothers.”
As I was reading this, I was thinking of a statistic that Halim shared with me a few weeks ago – something like 2/3 of all stay-at-home [...]
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Me, Brangelina & Adoption
I had a bizarre dream last week – I was having dinner with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at their house. (In case you were wondering, yes their house was very nice, but not ostentatious. Instead, it was elegant and understated. With really high ceilings.) Anyways, they had invited me over for the purpose of [...]
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