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2017 will be here in a few short hours. I don't do resolutions, but I choose a word or phrase to be my focus for each year. For 2016, it was "Let Go". 2017's word is "Peace". In the last few years, I've been working toward a more peaceful life by focusing on walking with Jesus, letting go of extraneous things, and focusing on the important things in life. I generally don't tend to be an anxious person. I have clinical depression for which I take medication, but I don't have a

2016 has been called a dumpster fire. So many well-loved public figures have died, most recently Carrie Fisher. Donald Trump was elected president. Global temperatures have been the warmest on record. Zika virus became widespread in the Americas and spread to Asia. But, let's be optimistic, not everything about 2016 was bad. In fact, in my world, 2016 really wasn't too bad a year. Besides, in 2 Thessalonians 5:18 Paul says to the Thessalonian church in his final words of the

Welcome to my new blog! I loved my old blog, but the name wasn't quite right and the categories and tags were becoming downright unwieldy. I'm much happier with this cleaner look in my new space. I have some posts planned on recent books that I've read as well as my Christmas knitting projects (sadly, I just realized that I didn't take pictures of all of them!). My "Word of the Year" post is coming up in the next week or two as well. You can subscribe to receive these posts i