Five Minute Friday: Song

by Teresa Shields Parker May 17, 2013
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This is becoming a habit. Before I close up shop on Thursday night to find Lisa-Jo Baker’s Five Minute Friday word in my inbox. I couldn’t resist writing about this word. The one word is my daughter, now spending a year in Japan. She’s probably singing in Japanese by now. The word is song. I have five minutes.

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How I found my purpose (and how you can find yours)

by Teresa Shields Parker May 14, 2013
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Finding your purpose, that unique thing that you do, isn’t always so easy. Erika Simone, a missionary kid in Mexico, discusses how she found hers in today’s Welcome Wednesday Guest Post.

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Fight like a girl

by Teresa Shields Parker May 12, 2013
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Remember Martha, one of the first workaholic women? It seemed Jesus berated her*. All she was doing was asking him to tell her lazy sister, Mary, to get up and help her.

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Singing with the angels

by Teresa Shields Parker May 11, 2013
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What I wouldn’t give today to be able to drive across town and say, “Happy Mother’s Day” to my mom or listen to her sing one of her favorite hymns.  I haven’t been able to do that for 20 years.

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Five Minute Friday: Comfort

by Teresa Shields Parker May 10, 2013
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Take one word and write on it for five minutes nonstop. I was just finishing up another project when I checked my inbox and there was Lisa Jo Baker’s Five-Minute Friday word. Why not? I wanted to write something about my mother. Honestly, I didn’t know what might come out. My mother and I did not have the best of relationships. But when I think of this word, I do think of her. Comfort. Five minutes. Go.

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Why fish don’t write

by Teresa Shields Parker May 9, 2013
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This is just a little something I wrote in the midst of over thinking everything I’ve ever written in my entire life. A minor breakdown. Nothing to be alarmed about. I’m all better now. I wrote it down. I figured why not share it? You may have felt the same thing a time or two. Writing is a solitary, scary, subtly overwhelming adventure I wouldn’t trade for anything.

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Scaring people away with your profile picture, finding true love

by Teresa Shields Parker May 7, 2013
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Finding true love is a dream most people have. In this Welcome Wednesday’s post Deanne Welsh talks about the process of online dating and presenting yourself in your best light. Oh, the things you can tell about a person from their profile picture.

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Rebuild the Walls

by Teresa Shields Parker May 5, 2013
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“God is in the restoration business. Nehemiah was just a subcontractor. He calls you and I to do the same. What walls are you rebuilding?” Jeremy Risner, said Sunday morning, May 5, at Christian Chapel, Columbia. Sunday evening Risner was elected as the church’s new lead pastor.

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Five Minute Friday: Brave

by Teresa Shields Parker May 3, 2013
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Every Friday a bunch of bloggers look forward to one word from Lisa Jo Baker.  They write for five minutes on that word, no editing, no overthinking. It’s a very freeing exercise, when I remember to do it. So, since it’s still Friday, I thought I’d share my thoughts on Brave. Actually, I must confess that I wrote one post but wasn’t brave enough to share it, not for any fear for myself, but for my very brave friend who seems to have many more things happen to her than any possible person on the planet. She is very brave to me. She knows who she is. Instead, I share a different take on Brave.

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