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A Girl in the Middle.

I teach & encourage Christian women to find God's will & live joyfully through seasons of disappointment in life and marriage.

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Monthly Archives: February 2018

An angel and a brain tumor

…but that wasn’t it.   For a couple of weeks it looked like Mom was having a bad reaction from an overdoes of pain meds-it was text book ‘too much’ followed by the same ‘withdrawal’, but that wasn’t it. June 8, 2014. Visits and phone calls were leading me to realize something was wrong.  After...

I thought I’d taken my last breath

In that very moment, the pain was so palpable I thought I had taken my last breath, and part of me wished I had. What Cancer Can’t Do Cancer is so limited… It cannot cripple love, It cannot shatter hope, It cannot dissolve faith, It cannot destroy peace, It cannot kill friendship, It cannot suppress memories, It cannot silence courage, It cannot invade...

From zero to 60

Spring in Richmond Rocketts Landing Finally, finally, finally~it’s spring in Richmond (no jinx). After 3 straight weeks of sub-zero temperatures, accumulating snow  and ice storms, singing song birds and bouncy robins came out in droves, the daffodils all poke from underground and the sun shone every so brightly! Blues skies abound and the James River at Rocketts...

Curls & girls. When I remember.

Only When I miss Mom   Every Month on the Calendar January: my brother’s birthday February: Valentine’s Day-she personified love March: her brother’s birthday. my son’s birthday. my husband’s birthday. April: Easter. Her special Lamb Cake, coloring eggs at the kitchen table with her May: Mother’s Day, Her birthday. Her death day. June: my son’s birthday....

For women at home

He calmed the storm to a

whisper, and the waves of the

sea were hushed.

Psalm 107:29

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