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Sunny Side Up - My two hoots for this week

Sunny Side Up - My two hoots for this week

My neck hurts from looking up. I have been owl-gazing and owls rarely perch on bottom branches. When you read this, the family of long-eared owls that has enlivened our backyard and thoroughly captivated me will no doubt have moved on.
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Sunny Side Up - Every ending means a new beginning

Sunny Side Up - Every ending means a new beginning

An hour before the worship service, I find the pastor’s wife weeping in the church nursery. She’s huddled in the corner chair beside the playpen, pressed deep into it, like a wild thing cornered.
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Sunny Side Up - Jesus never fails, even during a pandemic

Sunny Side Up - Jesus never fails, even during a pandemic

Some people, during the isolation phase of the pandemic, have accomplished considerable worthwhile things. Friends have painted the entire inside of their homes. Some have made quilts or scrapbooks for each child.
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Sunny Side Up - There’s always a reason to celebrate birthdays

Sunny Side Up - There’s always a reason to celebrate birthdays

Stolen from my daughter’s Facebook page: [Footsteps in the dark. “Mama, I need to enjoy my last day of being seven!” “Dinah Jane, what time is it?” “6:30.” “I just got Ezra back to sleep. Please go back to your room.
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Sunny Side Up - Season the special moments with prayer

Sunny Side Up - Season the special moments with prayer

The school’s empty staff room seemed a perfect place to lull a baby to sleep. I sat in a big old armchair, my tiny grandson resting on my lap.
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Sunny Side Up - Are you hurting? God is near.

Sunny Side Up - Are you hurting? God is near.

Today some of my readers didn’t have the luxury of waking at home, surrounded by the familiar, the comfortable, the beloved. Unwanted circumstances have transferred them elsewhere, and life’s ground feels, if not shaky, at least spongy. I understand.
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Sunny Side Up - Opening the gift of hardship

Sunny Side Up - Opening the gift of hardship

Hard times, these. You don’t need me to tell you that, of course. Whether watching bad news or experiencing bad news, it bites. But those stories don’t end there. The Preacher and I were reminded of that in an unusual way a few years ago.
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Sunny Side Up - Sing the love of Christmas

Sunny Side Up - Sing the love of Christmas

Until he died, my friend, Dr. Phil (not the television personality) recalled the first time we met. Years earlier, a few days before Christmas, our family had come to sing carols at his daughter’s door.
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Sunny Side Up - This Father’s Day, remember our Father's love

Sunny Side Up - This Father’s Day, remember our Father's love

A large rabbit bumped its way across the street ahead of me as I walked the dog the other morning. Cash and I watched it make its funny zig-zag path in and out of front yards, then back onto the road, grey ears flapping, powerful hind legs pumping.
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Sunny Side Up - My psalm for times like these

Sunny Side Up - My psalm for times like these

Lord, here we are again. Broken hearts all round; stars, still new, still beautiful, still shining, plunging before they’re spent.
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