My hotspot was drained and I missed my deadline for writing tonight. I had to replenish the battery on my phone in order to connect to the internet. It’s kind of like me tonight. I need to be replenished too. I’m unmotivated. Stuck in a rut. Despite my recent vacation, I need a surge of…
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{Re}constitute
Just add water. Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” John 4:10, NET I once tried to focus on drinking water during Lent. I…
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{Re}joice
As I looked at the odometer on my 2006 car, I realized that there are nearly 162,000+ miles on it. I was driving back to Oklahoma to help out my mom. While it wasn’t an exciting drive or a full onslaught of Sunday morning praise and worship, I found myself rejoicing. I have no car…
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{Re}fugium
This is a complicated again word that spoke to me this morning. Apparently it was Dictionary.com‘s word of the day recently. I had to look it up. Refugium means “an area where special environmental circumstances have enabled a species or a community of species to survive after extinction in surrounding areas.” Biologically speaking it’s a…
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{Re}assure
Reassure means to restore to confidence. I seem to need this more than others. However, I often need to have multiple forms of reassurance. My friend Dana reminded me one day that I didn’t have to take a certain situation. I could make a change. It was then that I started looking for a resolution.…
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{Re}st
The power of naps is seriously underrated. Especially on a Sunday. The day of rest. Keck and I have gotten into the habit of going to Gloria’s after church. When we come home the first thing I do is put on my pajamas and take a nap. When I was little and we would have…
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{Re}mnant
My mom used to make all my clothes. All of them. She could take a remnant and turn it into a skirt or a blouse or a pair of shorts. As a matter of fact, she used up all those bits and pieces, the leftovers of other sewing projects, to make a prototype for my…
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{Re}ctify
Rectify — I always have to do it to my mom’s phone. The latest system isn’t installed. She has several, make that hundreds, unread and unnecessary emails. With no wi-fi, I had to use my hotspot to download the latest version of the software and generally optimize all the settings. I have to do it…
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Now the healing begins. It will be a long process from full knee replacement to long walks at the museum. But tonight my mom rests with a new knee — we’re calling her the bionic woman. She’ll have three hard weeks of a passive motion machine and three times a week therapy, but the results…
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{Re}peat
We’ve all heard the silly joke: Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence. Pete fell off and who was left? Repeat. Pete and Repeat were … Tonight as we prepare for my mom’s second knee replacement the silliness caught up with me. We’ve been here before. It will be a short night since we…
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