Happy Day to Dave and Tara who just celebrated 5 years of love and marriage on Saturday.   And to Rocky and Jovan who are celebrating 2 years tonight.
My kids have married so well.   It is their anniversaries, but I feel so blessed!
 

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My initial reactions are rage and disappointment.   My first responses are  deep grief and sadness, even anger. What are you thinking?   What have you done?   What happened?
Yet,  I tread carefully.   I  start to judge you, lash out and condemn you in my mind, but I must not.   Judge not that [...]

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Dave, on his blog, talks about the 27 years of movies, but the very first movie, the one we watched at a place he was housesitting on May 26, 1981, the movie he invited me over to view on TBS - while I  was unaware it was a “date, but was without a doubt, retrospectively, [...]

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I cannot help it - the Duggars fascinate me.   I feel like a voyeuristic intruder when I watch a Discovery Channel special about them, like I am somehow violating their 17 children by just looking at them agape, my  jaw hanging low.   But I guess they are OK with it.   It probably [...]

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See the post from Tara's birthday last year here.
Happy Birthday to my firstborn daughter.  Happy Birthday, infectuous and joyful daughter of the King!  Happy happy days for you, anointed psalmist and voice for your generation, truth exhorter and encourager to so many.  Happy celebration of your birth, sweet Tara.  You've been light and life to me [...]

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I recently mentioned the "Joernaal" Tredessa had purchased for me in South Africa and how I am using it to write, word-for-word the entire book of Ephesians, but following short passages with my own personalization of it - a letter to my family, really, with my favorite book of the Bible lending topic and inspiration.
Today's [...]

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I love you, babe, with "so much of my heart there is none left to protest!"…Jeanie

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"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth…for your love is better than wine." Song of Songs 1.2
   
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I first became fascinated with kissing as something other than sweet parental affection at about the age of four while watching an old Western with my mom. It was 1964 and there was some scene between a cowboy and [...]

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"When I kiss you, I can taste your soul."  Carrie Latet

"I wasn't kissing her.  I was whispering in her mouth."  Chico Marx
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."  Ingrid Bergman
"Aaaaauuurrggghhhhh!  I've been kissed by a dog!  I have dog germs!  Get some hot water!  Get some [...]

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Well, as the first to be married, you were the ones we really practiced on!  Six years ago, only 2 days after Christmas (I thought you were trying to kill me), you were married and danced your first dance - under the upside-down-white-tree-trimmed-in-crystals-and-strewn-with-thousands-of-white-lights-looking-ever-so-"giant chandelier-ish" (a similiar version hangs in The Celebration Center at Northern Hills this [...]

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