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25 January 2020by Rachel Leave a comment

If you subscribed to my blog way back when, you probably received three or four old blog posts yesterday. I apologize! I accidentally published them again! We will now carry […]

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The Great Thaw

18 September 2017by Rachel 2 Comments

Stuck. That’s where I’ve been. I just looked back at the last time I wrote: September 2014, “The Long Winter.” And here I am….still feeling like I’m in winter. What? […]

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the long winter

21 February 2014by Rachel 7 Comments

Maryland has had one of the coldest snowiest winters in years, or so the locals say; and this Carolina girl is not used to temperatures in the single digits or […]

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when grief and joy go hand in hand

25 September 2013by Rachel 2 Comments

My mom delivered seven children naturally. I witnessed four of those births. My siblings were born either at home or in a birth center.  The atmosphere was calm, peaceful, sacred […]

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a baby shower of sorts

21 September 2013by Rachel Leave a comment

If you’ve read my blog for longer than a week, you’ve heard me mention Mandie Joy, my co-foster mom in Uganda.  If you don’t read her blog, then you might […]

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moving north

15 September 2013by Rachel 3 Comments

It’s Saturday and there is a very pleasant lull in the house while little man sleeps. Two months ago J came home from Afghanistan, a whole month early due to […]

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Need of Jesus

6 September 2013by Rachel 1 Comment

It’s been silent here for a while and I should update, but while an update is brewing, here’s what I’ve been reading: Another Army wife gave me a book called […]

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to two moms

11 May 2013by Rachel Leave a comment

::Unwearying Faithfulness:: For years I have watched my mom as she has mothered my siblings and me. When she looks back over those years she probably sees the things she […]

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joy in the aching

9 April 2013by Rachel 4 Comments

We are officially in the doldrums of this deployment. R&R has come and gone, and we aren’t quite to the halfway point between R&R and my love’s homecoming.  Morale ebbs […]

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Jesus::Comfort and Compassion

29 March 2013by Rachel Leave a comment

I went to a Good Friday service today at church.  It was at an inconvenient time…right in the middle of Crumb’s naptime….so I had to wake him up and then […]

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