Army Life Archives ~ Page 7 of 16 ~ The Grace Between

Rest For Your Souls

Didja ever have those days? Those days – like today – where I end up on the wooden floor in my living room backed up against the wall, hypnotized by the dust motes floating lazily around pale, cold sunbeams. And the wall is necessary, bracing me, because I...

Hero … Part 1.

{Super late, of course, but linking up with Lisa Jo and the Five Minute Friday crew.} The soldier as hero narrative makes us uncomfortable, it does. But the gratitude comes often and expressive when he is in uniform. And because there is a generation of warriors who...

Single Parenting PSA

I’ve been a sad sack around here lately … I’ll have mercy on you today, and tell you why you should immediately do something nice for the closest {permanent} single parent you can grab. We went to my parents’ church over the break. I grew up in this church, it’s...

Fight. And Light.

The prompt tonight is FIGHT. {Five Minute Friday is back, yay!} I was rolling it around on my tongue, waiting for more words, coherent thoughts, to follow. And truthfully, I was just about to bow out when my seven year old nephew shouted from upstairs. “Hey! Fight and...

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