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  • You Put Your Whole Heart In, You Take Your Whole Heart Out
    Wednesday, May 19th, 2010     Lori Roeleveld     3 Comments

    Have you ever asked someone to do something for you and had them follow through but only with half-hearted effort? Don’t you hate that? When that happens to me I feel torn. I’d like to be grateful to them for doing what I requested but usually I am left wishing they hadn’t bothered. A half-hearted …[ read more ]

  • The Flash Drive of Faith
    Friday, May 14th, 2010     Lori Roeleveld     10 Comments

    A simple incident this week with my husband, a flash drive and a moment of frustration helped me understand the importance of faith. It was like this. Our desktop computer is situated in a hard to reach corner of Rob’s office. I needed to plug my flash drive into the USB port on the back …[ read more ]

  • My Mom is a Force
    Sunday, May 9th, 2010     Lori Roeleveld     15 Comments

    I can’t write about my mom. Usually I turn to words to give life to my thoughts, feelings and ideas but when I try to write about my mom, words seem colorless, anemic, and insubstantial. My mom is a force. I am, at times, tempted to wonder if God loves me but then I think …[ read more ]

  • Mojo for the Middle
    Thursday, May 6th, 2010     Lori Roeleveld     14 Comments

    Beginnings are beautiful aren’t they? Births, babies, baptisms, romances, engagements, weddings, first days, first sentences, first words, first steps, first prayers. The start of something new is like a spring day on steroids – refreshing and intense, an interlude of optimism and joy in a darker fugue. Endings are cause for celebration as well. Graduations, …[ read more ]

  • I Was Raised By Wolves
    Monday, May 3rd, 2010     Lori Roeleveld     8 Comments

    My parents were raised by wolves. Not wolves, really, but that’s about as much thought as any of the four – no, eight – men and women involved in raising them gave to parenting children (all divorced and remarried or reinvolved). They didn’t read books, attend seminars or invest late nights in assisting with school …[ read more ]