December 13, 2009, Posted by Mela at 4:37 PM
I was asked by my friend, Faith (Klein) Herrgesell, to be a guest blogger on her site. I was honored to be asked and she gave me complete freedom to write about any topic I wanted. You can see the post and read more of her guest bloggers’ posts here.
Faith is a wonderful and effective [...]
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December 4, 2009, Posted by Mela at 10:13 PM
Here’s a poem I wrote for my middle child. I found it while I’m decluttering my mounds of paper. As a baby, he was notoriously up constantly through the night. Even so, he was sweet, smiley and happy to see me each morning. It reminds me of how everything is made new through Christ. No [...]
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November 24, 2009, Posted by Mela at 10:17 PM
When you spend most of your life pointing out the negatives, being thankful isn’t a default setting.
In high school, creative writing was my favorite class. In a difficult college course, I knew I could bump up my grade if an essay was part of the test. Writing came easily, as did all the rules that [...]
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