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A Fearful and Fascinating Mystery
Numinous. It’s a five-star word that describes the tingly feeling you get, sometimes in church, sometimes through personal devotion, and sometimes for no reason at all, when you get the feeling that...
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Home for Christmas
I had a brilliant article planned this week. A really great one, that tied in metaphysics and experience and theology and I really like the concept. You’ll see it, but not this week. I got a call this...
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Great Expectations
All I want for Christmas is… sing along! My two front teeth. You. A yacht, and that’s not a lot. I’ve been an angel all year, Santa baby. We sing about it, but that doesn’t make it any less awkward on...
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Plus One
It’s time to schedule our family Christmas portraits. I’d send them out with my Christmas cards if I were organized enough to send out Christmas cards… it’s my Achilles heel, Christmas-card-sending....
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For which I am thankful
I have a great deal for which to be thankful. There’s the obvious. I’m lucky enough to have a good family, both my family of origin, my parents and brothers, and the family I’ve created for myself: my...
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Ready . . . Set . . . WTF?!?
Even now, seven years later, I can’t stand to look at the magazines. You know the ones. Pregnancy and You. Perfect Pregnancy. Pregnancy Where You Get To Stay In The Same Place And Not Move At All....
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Have Yourself a Tacky Little Christmas
It’s one of those shared beliefs. A vision statement. A guiding principle. You have those in your marriage when two tightly wound wonky types get married. Benchmarks. Milestones. Strategic Plans. If...
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It’s All About the Jelly Doughnuts
Last weekend, Chris and I took our kids to a park called Dallas Heritage Village, a city park featuring a collection of historic Victorian-era buildings and living-history storytellers. It’s a great...
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I Believe
I swear to this day that I once saw Santa’s sleigh flying across the sky. I was ten years old, old enough to have figured out what was really up with the fat man in the red suit, and yet I swear to...
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Schmaltz
It’s officially Christmas around here chez Rose, as of five minutes ago. I know this because of what is on my stove. Schmaltz. “Is that even a real thing?” Chris asked. “Yes, it’s Yiddish for rendered...
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