Tag: children
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Keep the sounds of love for 2024!
This evening as we gathered together, I listened to sounds of those that hold us close. One was crying, my first son. He had just used his dad’s clippers to scrap hair off his head. His little brothers and older sister talked about getting him a toupe to cover his head as his dad tried…
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Keep following your bright star!
There up in the sky, there like a season, a greeting, in the darkness of the night, are stars shining brightly for all those moments you bless in pain, those you cherish for no gain, every single time, you wished time passed gently, leaving nothing behind, whether the day remembers or the night forgets, know…
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Keep the bright sides of 2024!
My son on the spectrum was kicked out of school when he was two. And so began a journey into an existence I never knew existed. He is 10 years old now and yesterday he was one of the three wise men in his school’s Christmas play. Shortly after he was kicked out of school,…
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Keep your growth rings!
Picture this, a woman strange, small, very small, and hidden as if keeping a secret all to herself. Except the secret is not a secret and her ways are small and strange. Every year they say a tree full of life, adds a growth ring to the wood in its trunk, because it has to…
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Keep the thanksgiving lessons of a burning bush!
These days the comfort with cleverness of our times, whether with the speed of things instant, or the news of things social, all don’t ignite me. Rather, this morning, we begin again with grace, in thanks, with eyes burning like a bush endlessly brilliant, endlessly bright, for the warmness of these times, the love of…
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Keep moments where you begin again!
Yesterday I returned home after being away for a week. The past one month, I have been on a rollercoaster ride of my own doing, that slowly came to a halt yesterday in the middle of the Atlantic, somewhere on the journey from Amsterdam to Detroit. I took the time to reflect on what can…
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Keep seeing your smile!
I saw my smile the other day, saw how it made my eyes light up, saw how my lips became crooked, head tilted to the side, shoulders lean forward, all with an ease I could watch forever. So I started to see my smile more, see the way it burrowed deep within my soul, see…
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Keep love
I am remembering love, the sweet taste of pomegranate, love, a blue line on a red sky, love, children bright like stars, love, peace that surpasses all understanding… love, a poem without words, this love, love, love…
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Keep hope!
We hope to rise with feet eager and life hopeful, to stand upon a hill and smile at a soul so full. If this is the brink of another day, may all we sow, all we gather, all we grew and all we planted, with our bare hands, help us to fix our eyes on…
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Keep being young at heart!
We went to Disney on Ice, reluctantly at first. There were 5 little boys and one almost teen daughter and let’s just say none of the boys wanted to go. We convinced them it would be short and we would go to a playdate afterwards and they reluctantly came along. Of course the show was…
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Keep this 4th anniversary, the one full of grace!
One of my favorite prayers begins with the word, “Hail Mary, full of grace.” If you know the next lines, for me, you would know that the lord has truly been with me. For who can go through fire, go through trials and somehow, get to the other side, oblivious to the fact that just…
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Keep flying!
It is the person who fails, who tries and tries, yet fails, that has the most sterling story than anyone you know successful. I know many who wrote grants their first time and got it, many who resigned from jobs and moved on, many who turned their back on things great and kept their backs…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 