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Category Archives: Karen’s journey
Enough of God to Go Around – Revisited
LIVING AS APPRENTICES I’m working on a book on living our lives as apprentices every day. This week I started a chapter on living with an attitude of abundance. As always, I rooted around among my nearly 250 posts to … Continue reading
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Tagged scarcity and abundance, Stephen R. Covey
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Where are You? (Revisited)
Note: Recently I was poking around in the archives of this blog and noticed the following blog, published on January 21, 2013. I’m re-posting it now because this blog has many new readers who might not have seen it. My … Continue reading
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My Surrender
MY JOURNEY Co-dependency. Enabling. I had no idea what those words meant. But I lived them out with all my passion for decades. After my life came to a screeching debacle, and I learned what those words meant, I wanted … Continue reading
A Memory Blitz
MY JOURNEY I’ve been on a memory blitz this month. Other people might call it cleaning. The whole adventure was prompted by my second retirement, which made the fact of my age quite clear to me. We are in the … Continue reading
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Take Me out to the Ball Game!
My Journey Last Saturday I heard the tail end of an NPR story on Wrigley Field in Chicago, including interviews with generations of fans. But it wasn’t until I checked out the sports page this morning over my cheerios and … Continue reading
Writing: Recycling Life
Writing as an Act of Faith What makes a writer write? Passion? Pride? An assignment? Financial desperation? All of the above, perhaps. But sometimes we write because writing through the gunk and griefs of life may not only ease our … Continue reading
Posted in Karen's journey, Writing as an Act of Faith
Tagged Al-Anon, Alcoholism, Beginning with Me, why we write
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Splash in the Puddles of Joy
My Journey I lost the magic of life at a very young age. Bereft by the loss of her chaplain husband from friendly fire during WWII, my mother spiraled the two of us through cycles of depression and grief and … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity Today, holiness, joy, N.D. Wilson
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Moving on Down the Road
My Journey Hundreds of books have now been purged, given away, or moved (bag by bag, box by box over the last two weeks) from the church office to my “work-in-progress” home office. My plants also have been ferried to … Continue reading
Living as Apprentices 