Read Before You React
Mabel is amazing. I love her. There. That’s it. (Not really). Readers, sometimes in my attempts to care for Mabel and protect this precious monarch caterpillar from harm (only 2-10% make it to butterfly adulthood, after all), I’ve actually harmed when I’ve wanted to help. You see, I didn’t do a lot of research about caterpillars beforehand, so some of the natural parts of her lifecycle … I interpreted as distress. When I came outside to discover her on the patio, far away fro
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Tackling Big Problems
A few days ago, I made a new friend. Her name is Mabel. And she is a caterpillar. A yellow, black, and white stripey monarch caterpillar, to be precise. When I found her chowing down on a tiny milkweed bush in the garden center I was perusing through, I was entranced. Of course, I had to buy the plant that housed such a precious gift of nature! And guys, I’m so glad I did. As I’ve been studying her—eyes wide and transfixing, like a little kid—the Lord’s been teaching me life
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Hills and Waves
Last winter, I went on a run. And because I'm me, I was praying while on said run. Oddly enough, as I jogged around town, I sensed the Holy Spirit’s nudge to do something I desperately did not want to do: turn around and run up the hill I’d just run down. Feeling somewhat silly but trusting, I did as I was told … again and again and again (guys, I probably ran up and down the same hill like ten or twenty times!). About half way through this odd endeavor, I asked Jesus why He
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