Tag: Alaska
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Thee Testimony
Panic. The minute the group leader who just happened to be one of the pastors at my church said, “Each of you will be sharing your testimony during this study. One testimony per week. I’ll pick the person each week.” Yikes! My brain hole started whirl-pooling. Do you all have a brain hole too? Things…
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Walking Out of Egypt
One woman from Arizona. One woman from Connecticut. One woman from New York. One woman from Ohio. Our backgrounds and stories are different, yet similar, with one for sure commonality; we all wound up serving in the Alaska Air National Guard, located in, well, Anchorage, Alaska. How we all got there doesn’t matter for this…
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Fish On
Let’s talk about how much God cares about you. Before I left on my recent girl’s trip to Alaska, my son’s friend asked me to bring him back some salmon. I was like, I don’t think so, followed by some sort of “yeah, right” snorting sound. It wasn’t my plan to do any fishing. It…
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Alaska
When I was a young girl, I remember looking up in the dark skies of the night and looking for the Big Dipper. Somehow knowing that heavenly constellation was high in the sky brought me peace from the chaos of living in a home filled with addiction. How could the beauty of those shining beacons…
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Ditch Diving
After living in Alaska for 20 years, I can say that driving on the ice covered, snowy roads could be extremely treacherous. The Dept of Transportation did their best to keep up with snow removal but sometimes I think the slick plowed roads were worse than the snowy covered roads prior to plowing. Worse still,…
Blessed to be Broken 