Folks, I’m still up against the deadline of March 1 for “the book.” My biggest (and best) critic Big D has convinced me to go back and rewrite chapter eight. So, the heat is on! (Well, literally too because it is 17 degrees out this morning). My blog stats say that very few have read [...]

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Sometimes I really, really wish that I could put God’s name in my Google search slot and come up with some answers. You know the way you do when you can’t remember the name of a movie or you can’t remember which State some national monument is in. All you have to do is put [...]

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I’m a total idiot. A spaz. I know that! I’ve always known that. So falling into the lake shouldn’t have been a complete surprise to me. It was my third trip to Finland. I had made some really good friends there on my maiden voyage. People in the Christian community were so kind to me [...]

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The Chinese government had a funny way of doing things back in the early 1980s when I first started teaching there. The Communist Party had a strict policy to protect its citizens from the invasion of foreign ideas and philosophies coming into the country through the massive influx of English teachers from the West. Their [...]

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Sorry folks, here’s another rerun. Still focusing on the book. Here’s the blog I mentioned in The Love Shack posting. This might explain why I loved Young’s ideas so much. For those of you who follow Christ with a complete awareness of and security in God’s Abba Love, it doesn’t make much sense (Big D, [...]

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The InterVarsity Press contract arrived in the mail yesterday. Truly it was a beautiful thing to behold. The publisher asked me on the phone if I could have the manuscript finished and in his hands by March 1, 2009. SURE! No problem. Then yesterday I opened the contract and there it was in black and [...]

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They were literally yelling at me—screaming actually—these two babushka, thick-ankled, over-muscular cafeteria ladies. Everyone fears cafeteria ladies, but in Russia they are a whole lot worse; they are EXTREME CAFETERIA LADIES. I was soooo embarrassed standing there in the middle of the crowded cafeteria (café diarrhea was another name I had for it). Students stopped [...]

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Second place is common in my life. I’m daughter #2 of my parents. I am wife #2 of my husband. Once I was in a competition in high school and I won…yes…second place. I wore a lot of hand-me-downs (second place clothing) as a kid and if you think about it, being a step-mom is, [...]

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ABC’s hit show Lost has won four Emmys, four Guild Awards, won Golden Globes’ best TV drama three times and was voted by the British Academy of Film and Television as the Best American Import. It beat out 20 shows worldwide to win the coveted Monte Carlo International Best Television Award in 2005. According to [...]

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Actually the title of today’s post should be, “The Shack I Love” so as not to be confused with the 1989 hit song by the B52s! While on vacation last week (sunny Cancun thank you very much) I read William P. Young’s The Shack. I was skeptical to be quite honest with you. A little [...]

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