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by Lisa-Jo | Nov 29, 2010 | Callings, Christmas, Faith, Family, Motherhood
As we travel toward December 25th, I will be marking the four weeks of Advent with this series – Pregnant with Christmas. With one child born two days after Christmas and my tummy full of another one right now, so many of my thoughts are on that teenage mother...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 18, 2010 | Blogging, Callings, Faith, Motherhood
I read a whole book in the last two days. I can’t remember when last I did that. My life is usually so stop-and-go between wiping bottoms, reading Spiderman chronicles, and picking up stray cherios from all over the planet. But when stranded between time zones...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 11, 2010 | Callings, Faith
There was a time in my life when I was a corporate attorney. I wore power suits, worked 80 hour weeks and sold my time in six minute increments. I wrote and researched and researched and wrote and almost always ate dinner at the firm every night of the week. And in...
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by Lisa-Jo | Nov 9, 2010 | Callings, Faith, Family, Marriage
I’ve been thinking about love. And sex. And faith. I’ve been listening to true, searching, thoughtful, compelling, compassionate and artistic women as they strip down and bare their beliefs. Wrapped in blankets and propped between pillows, when the night...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 8, 2010 | Callings, Faith, Family, Marriage, Motherhood
Monday mornings can come hard and dark and dreaded. I lie in bed and think about what Ann says about moments like these. Just do the next thing. Not the tenth thing down the list. Not anticipating the fifth, sixth, and seventh things all crashing down at once in a...
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by Lisa-Jo | Nov 2, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion, Faith
For those of you who don’t know, I’m a recovering “Lame Sponsor” with Compassion International. I have a checkered past when it comes to keeping up regular correspondence with the two boys we sponsor. To date, a five year old in Ghana has been out-writing me! That all...
