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A Better Point
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2017), CC0/PD It was supposed to be a fairly simple day. Teach school. Take kids to piano lessons. Go shopping. Try to balance the bank account. Life in all its humdrum...
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Dance on the Hilltops
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2018), CC0/PD I recently met a boy named Toby who has lived since birth with a life-threatening condition. As I got to know him, I wondered how his view of the world and life...
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Life Complications
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2017), CC0/PD So okay, after a series of events where I have to make choices, even though I don’t own a crystal ball, and I was definitely at the end of the line when God was...
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Learn As I Go
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2017), CC0/PD I was sitting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office and a mother came in with the world’s cutest toddler. This child could have ousted Shirley Temple off...
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Along the Roadside
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2013), CC0/PD Early this spring, I was taking my usual walk, and I couldn’t help but notice three beer cans in my path. Annoyed, I picked them up. And then I picked up an...
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Reconnect
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2019), CC0/PD We were invited to visit a large homeschooling family in the area, and I went with the understanding that I’d never be able to remember anyone’s name, and...
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Another Season
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2016), CC0/PD I took up an old pail, a sponge, and cleanser and scrubbed up the old chick pen this morning. The sun shone and birds chirped to the glory of springtime. After...
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Love Anyway
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2017), CC0/PD I’ve never been particularly good with suffering. Avoidance? Insecurity? Hyper-control? Sure. Then my all-star qualities shine bright. But being insecure,...
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Whispering in my Ear
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2018), CC0/PD There is no end to the reproductive abilities of my to-do list. As soon as I send half a dozen items into obliteration, it squares its shoulders, huffs like an...
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What God Has Desired
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2013), CC0/PD I just finished reading my grandmother’s memoirs, and once again, I see the universe from a new perspective. Marie Haggerty had a terrible relationship with...
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Wisdom Between Them
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2016), CC0/PD My dad once said, in effect, that a house is like a child that never grows up. Though it does manage to grow old. How true! When I “discovered” my house on a...
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Allow My Soul to Soar
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2018), CC0/PD There is a nest of swallows right above my porch doorway, high on the south side of the house, just under the eaves. The papa and mama cared for three...
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Make One Strong
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2017), CC0/PD A squirrel nearly committed suicide under the wheels of my car the other day. Lucky for it, I wasn’t driving. My daughter was. The one just learning to drive....
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Love Alone
Image credit: Pexels.com<?a>, CC0/PD My daughter showed me a YouTube video recently of a little girl meeting her adoptive parents for the first time. The child, about four, could not have been...
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Humanity Exists for a Reason
Image credit: By Toni Ferreira, Pexels.com, CC0/PD I’ve got a lot to learn. But one thing I do know, denying the elemental forces of the spiritual world would be — for me — like denying the power of...
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I Need Other People
Image credit: Pexels.com (2018), CC0/PD So I haven’t been able to find the lid to my coffee mug for weeks. How I have survived is one of life’s little mysteries. Still, it bothered me. The lid...
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Make the Day Better for Someone
Image credit: Pixabay.com, CC0/PD I can’t help but wonder what holds people together when the world seems to be falling apart. I recently finished reading the life history of Alexander Hamilton, and...
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People Surprise Me
Postcard courtesy of Ann K. Frailey. Have you ever lived alongside someone for years but not really known them? Then one day, like a crack of thunder, something in the universe shifts, and — surprise!...
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Who I Am Becoming
Copyright 2020 Rebekah Frailey. All rights reserved. I can’t draw to save my life. Or play the organ, fix a computer, or discuss housing options with a cantankerous possum. My gaze wanders from the...
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Once Upon A Time, They Were Here
Image: Pixabay.com (2019), CC0/PD Sometimes life just turns pure strange, and there’s not a whole lot I can do about it. I received an email this week from someone wanting to know where three bodies...
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