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Being an Influencer

Our house is hot. I am upstairs with a fan on in my room, a fan on in Sawyer’s room and a big fan on in the middle room trying to cool the house down. Yet today is a good day. The AC repair man has shown up.   He is young with brown curly hair. His name is Chad. I watch him as he adjusts his hair in his side mirror, gathers his toolbelt, his tools, and of course his face mask (which he wears in our hot attic... hero!). And as he puts on his facemask, I put...

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Growing in Christ

It is only 10 weeks after the craziness of quarantine began, and I am already beginning to look back on that time with a nostalgic desire to return to the simplicity of – “No, girl! You are stuck at home. You cannot run out for a minute and "fill in the blank!”  My days are still mostly at home. Our family is still “working” under the same roof – Steve downstairs, me upstairs, and Sawyer in her room. We are still avoiding the grocery...

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Reset Your Mind on Christ

A three-bedroom house, a family of nine, and a record console blaring Elvis Presley’s “I’m all Shook Up.” It wasn’t often that the wooden house I grew up in would be rocking, but when my sister Francis would start playing Elvis’s record, each family member would stop in the middle of their chores and do our best to replicate the dance style of the King of Rock & Roll. If you were to ask me what song title I think most depicts my feelings in the last...

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