Month: September 2014
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A Message to a Mom
Walking the play ground I hear parents whisper to each other or their children, “well that was awkward”, “I bet she’s embarrassed” “can you believe that kid?”. I look ahead to where they were walking from. A mom, struggling with her son. It very easily could have been me, a few days earlier. I smiled…
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Compassion
In a world of technology and social media, we as human beings are losing our humanity. In recent weeks I’ve read many stories from around the world where this is becoming more and more true. We are cruel, intentionally. I ache when I read these stories, cringe at the vileness of the words and actions.…
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Inspiration
Often when I share on my blog about our circumstances I hear words like inspiring, refreshing, honest, real…and to be honest, while I love to know that I’m helping others by sharing my story, I’m also a bit baffled. I truly didn’t understand why this isn’t fishing for compliments. It has made me reflect on…
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Burden of Responsibility
We are in the midst of a very difficult time right now with our youngest son. He is a really good kid most of the time but he has some serious anger issues. We are doing the very best we can with him and are working very hard with community supports to get him all…