“I remember my affliction and my wandering…and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.” Lamentations 3:19-23 NIV Hard-core faith means hoping in things unseen, confident that what you hope for [...]
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So I’m not cool anymore but at least light shines for me
October 16th, 2011 
Iris Morning feeding frenzies, milk spills, weekly baon trips to the grocery, and impromptu Disney live shows. That’s my life now. Of course, it’s an underestimation, what did you think? And I’m not even in charge of an entire household yet. (So hats off to my mom.) 5 years ago I wouldn’t have thought about clean [...]
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September 13th, 2011 Iris “And the day is coming when we will see life so completely that abandoned dependence is all we ever want again.” -Relevant Mag I used to live with abandoned care. With no purpose but to please myself, I careened from one indulgence to another. Of course eventually I had to crash and the worst kind [...]
When algae takes its revenge, do not give it a foothold
August 28th, 2011 Iris The day has come for the revenge of the little green (algae) men, whose existence were relegated to the status of ‘scums’ and to places where men tread upon them.
Being a single parent is hard
August 11th, 2011 Iris Being a single parent is hard. And I don’t even mean I’m-the-mom-and-dad kind of hard, but the i-need-to-’compete’-with-my-parents’-discipline-too kind of hard. When I put quote marks on ‘compete’, I feel like I’m watering down the word, hoping it doesn’t convey the negativity it really has. It’s hard because I’m away 70% of my kid’s waking [...]
