Monthly Archives: March 2012

Just Pause.

Today my maternal grandmother passed away. Ninety-two years old and hadn’t even been on a medication until her hospitalization. NINETY-TWO people. Those are my genes, crazy. Someone told me recently that honoring people is seeing them for who they truly are…without judgment, without masking, without condemnation, without filtering. Just seeing them, the whole of them...

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Celebrating you is easy.

Today is your birthday. You are powerfully sane. You are astonishingly brave. You are good and pure. You are permanently worth celebrating, today more than ever. Liv loves you too.

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Why I pray.

Lately I’ve wrestled with why I should pray for things God does not promise. This has come in the wake of significant pain overshadowing those close to me, and therefore my heart too. The question of why I should ask God for something that he does not directly promise me has been unsettling, mostly because...

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Expecting Jude.

Last weekend I attended a sweet little library themed baby shower at Xavier Catholic School. The expecting mama is a good friend of my family’s and couldn’t be any cuter!! Brianna is a natural party planner so it was difficult for her to defer to her mama and sister’s plans as they executed this darling...

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Jeremiah Isabell: Baby

Meet Miss Jeremiah Isabell, fondly referred to as Miah by her fan club Miah is almost six weeks old and has a successful following of people who adore her…and who could blame them?!! Check out those baby blues. Miah’s parents are friends of ours that live in Austin. They’re visiting for the weekend for a...

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