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2013-01-27T03:21:21+00:00

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Dreams and Deliverance

Last updated on: January 27, 2013 at 3:21 am By Amy Courts

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had one superpower in my dreams. I don’t fly. Flying terrifies me. Even if I’m riding on a particularly strong and sure dragon, I lack the confidence to remain peaceably in the air. And more often than not, the dragon gets very angry with me because I’m clinging so tightly to its scales as to cause pain. To a dragon. But water? I can do water. When I swim in my sleep,... Read more

2012-12-18T15:53:56+00:00

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Winter in Bloom: New Ink

Last updated on: December 18, 2012 at 3:53 pm By Amy Courts

Sounds weird, right? Nothing blooms in winter. So last Summer, as I considered what I wanted to get for my new tattoo – the all-important, representing-my-life-and-it’s-many-woes-and-wins-since-Eli-was-born ink – I ran the gamut. Flowers? Dead flowers? A specific plant that blooms once and then dies, but in its bloom is utterly magnificent? And how to represent the family around it? Birds. Okay, birds. But what birds? What kind of bird would Paul be? And Matt? And Eli? Well, finally, I settled... Read more

2012-12-18T02:22:46+00:00

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From the Ground Up

Last updated on: December 18, 2012 at 2:22 am By Amy Courts

For a good long while now, I’ve been admiring my friend Jen Woodhouse’s incredible creativity from near and far. She’s a gifted singer/songwriter, an incredible mother, a phenomenal cook, and – dun dun dun – she builds stuff. Like, really really cool stuff. Not just weird crap. She builds massive Restoration-Hardware-esque end tables and wine cabinets. And I jealously wished I could do it too. Then she introduced me to ana-white.com and her thousands and thousands and thousands of DIY... Read more

2012-10-21T19:43:47+00:00

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I Am An Ultra-Marathoner (eeeeee!)

Last updated on: October 21, 2012 at 7:43 pm By Amy Courts

Three years in the making. That’s what yesterday’s achievement was. Achievement? I’m not sure that’s the right word. It felt so much more colossal than that, and yet…so much less. At the finish, I simultaneously felt like I hadn’t done anything all that incredible, and like I’d conquered the universe. (more…) Read more

2012-10-01T23:58:25+00:00

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The Tomb, The Womb, The Imposter, and The Beloved

Last updated on: October 1, 2012 at 11:58 pm By Amy Courts

God is in the kitchen. I know it if by no other fact than the myriad themes running through my life, iterated by everyone from friends to my therapist to our pastor to daily Scripture to the devotional book I randomly found gathering dust under my bed. The Tomb. The Womb. The Imposter. The Beloved. The Labor Pains. The parallels woven throughout. (more…) Read more

2012-07-17T11:59:26+00:00

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Light and Shadows

Last updated on: July 17, 2012 at 11:59 am By Lisa

Sunday, July 15 2012: Teaching from Colossians 2:15-17, our pastor spoke on what he calls “God’s shadow activity.” For over 25 years, as a professor and expert in theology, he has tried to make sense of the God we see on the Cross -who abhors wars and violence, taught us to turn the other cheek and sacrifice ourselves in love for even our enemies, and expressed that core truth in the most inconceivable way when He suffered a God-forsaken death by... Read more

2012-06-15T11:03:41+00:00

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Oscillations

Last updated on: June 15, 2012 at 11:03 am By Lisa

As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. (John 9:1-3) I’ve spent much of the last few weeks – a month, even – oscillating between sadness, anger, and being generally okay. I’m not so much surprised that... Read more

2012-05-05T11:15:09+00:00

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Trading Futures

Last updated on: May 5, 2012 at 11:15 am By Lisa

Tomorrow we celebrate one whole year with my sweet Elijah David. I can hardly believe it. This past year has simultaneously flown by and granted me hundreds and hundreds of honey moments that drip and drizzle so slowly I can still savor them. The year has taken us on some wild adventures through near-death and baby-tours to a brand new city where we’re still in the process of making our first house the home we’ll grow old in. (more…) Read more

2011-11-16T11:18:27+00:00

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When You Win the Wrong Lottery

Last updated on: November 16, 2011 at 11:18 am By Lisa

It’s been an eventful week for my friends…and a bit of a rough one for me. It was precipitated by the happy fact that a few weeks ago, Elijah started sleeping through the night, thereby ending our sweet, middle-of-the-night interludes. He’s growing up too fast. Then, last Monday, Paul ran his hand over my belly, and like a shock wave it hit me that we won’t ever again get to feel a tiny growing baby dancing inside me. Then, stupid... Read more

2011-11-09T22:26:37+00:00

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six months

Last updated on: November 9, 2011 at 10:26 pm By Lisa

sometimes there is no bright side no silver lining sometimes the grass is really greener because there it is and here it is not (more…) Read more

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