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Imposter Student

Imposter student!  I had a professor in the teaching program at Central Washington University who used this title to explain insecure feelings that people get….

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He Calmed Me

This is a very much edited journal post! All my prolific journaling boiled down to only a few sentences. I think they were important for…

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A Consistent Response from God

This was written as I approached graduation and was looking toward my first teaching position.  From the journal . . . . May 1996 Lord,…

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No Need for Jealousy

I chose this picture because I doubt this mom loved the held child more than the sulky one, but he obviously felt neglected.  It reminds…

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I Don’t Know How to Be

In 1989 I began sensing the Lord calling me to become an elementary school teacher.  I had thought for years that when my kids were…

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You Be the Daughter

 It’s sort of funny, but when I see that I have a journal entry with God’s Personal Words to Me* dated from the second half…

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Jesus Says, “All is Well. I’m in Control”

I remember having a time of anxiety when I was a little girl.  I was in kindergarten and had accidentally kicked my best friend in…

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Don’t Jump

My husband, Mark, has a very good sense of humor.  He used to compare our child-raising efforts to pushing a wheelbarrow full of frogs.  It…

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Desperate

Addictions are very hard, to say the least.  My husband is a recovered alcoholic but hasn’t drunk for many years.  That wasn’t the case in…

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A Gentle Answer

The author from the devotional I was reading that year posed a question, and I was pondering how to apply it in my life. We…

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