by TheLoveofMyLife | Nov 20, 2015 | Embracing Uncertainty, Love of My Life
I love Thanksgiving. Unlike Christmas, it is a quiet and reflective week and an awesome holiday. It is a day that we get to stop and just be. A day to reflect and a day to be thankful. The fact that tomorrow is the first #powdereddonutday of “Year 2” makes...
by TheLoveofMyLife | Nov 8, 2015 | Embracing Uncertainty, Love of My Life
You know that feeling. The feeling you get when you turn the page, and there is nothing on the next one. Or perhaps, that moment when you reach a fold in a map where the trail ends (of course, the paper ones before smart phones made them electronic). Or perhaps that...
by TheLoveofMyLife | Oct 21, 2015 | In the Words of the Kids, Love of My Life
Mom, We still have so much to talk about. I still have so much to ask you. You still have so much to teach me beyond the love, strength, grace, and compassion you demonstrated every day. I want to go back to the day. October 19th. Two days before your passing. The day...
by TheLoveofMyLife | Oct 20, 2015 | Love of My Life
It was Friday night. 2 weeks ago. In San Antonio. Taylor, Kyla, Katelyn and I had just made the drive down 281 from Austin for a weekend in the Hill Country. We had settled into our hotel, and I had popped down to the corner Walgreens, along the Riverwalk, to pick up...
by TheLoveofMyLife | Oct 7, 2015 | In the Words of the Kids, Love of My Life
“Blessed By Angels Unawares” | Hebrews 13:2 When I was fifteen, I lost my mom to breast cancer. The day was October twenty first, and I was sitting on the left side of the library at the table near the window. As I was confirming my fantasy football lineup, Mrs....
by TheLoveofMyLife | Aug 29, 2015 | Love of My Life, Powdered Donut Manifesto
“We each carry within us our own dragon.” As I sat with my dear friend, Martin Kohout, over a drink this summer, these words didn’t resonate in that moment we were together, but they have been tickling my soul for weeks. As fellow parishioners, Heather Kohout...
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