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Turn the Radio On

kjackson — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:02:27 +0000

Recently the kids and I have been listening to an audio book when we're in the car, but, sometimes, between discs, we'll let the radio play. Since we gave up TV years ago...and I don't read the news, either...we can be a little out of the loop. Maybe Kirsten listening to the Tulsa radio is a bit like Country Mouse visiting Town Mouse. When the advertisements play I don't think of them for me. My life is--by choice-- simple: I take care of farm animals; I school my children; I school other...

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Miracles in the Midst of Sorrow

kjackson — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:33:07 +0000

I've found there is no logic to how I feel in the middle of grief. I've received huge gifts, and--although I'm thankful for them because they assure me I don't have to make a drastic lifestyle change at the same time that our family has been changed so drastically--I sometimes don't have an...

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Like a Symphony

kjackson — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:08:11 +0000

Sometimes I actually think :). I like to plan and compare and problem solve. Sometimes I think my way to an answer. Sometimes I make choices based solely on my gut whether the choice seems logical or not. I feel my way to an answer (I use this method more often than thinking!). Then there was that time when the most tragic and shocking thing happened to me--that time, early one morning, when my husband died in our bed. I lost my capacity to think or feel. I couldn't make decisions. And in...

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Dancing Thankful

kjackson — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:55:34 +0000

People are always saying how it amazes them how I think, wish, pray for something and then it appears. To me this is a normal way of living so it confuses me when they say such things. I wonder, though, if maybe these little miracles aren't happening to them, too, and they're just not giving them...

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A Firewood Miracle

kjackson — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:07:26 +0000

Yesterday I shared the story "Tithing Upside Down." I was inspired to give $250 (that would be the 10% tithe) and that evening I received $2000 and an iPad. :) That was just one of many wild-and-crazy little miracles we have experienced since my husband died unexpectedly 25 days ago. These magical moments show me that we're all connected and when one person shows love it affects another...and another...and another. It amazes me again and again and I want to amaze you, too! My youngest child...

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Tithing Upside Down

kjackson — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:14:12 +0000

And so the big story--the headline--is that a 40-year-old homeschool mom unexpectedly lost her young and fit husband when he died of a massive heart attack next to her in bed. Even now--23 days later--I'm still not believing that story. It just seems so unreal. But within the big...

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The World Spins Madly On

kjackson — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:39:10 +0000

"World Spins Madly On" Woke up and wished that I was dead With an aching in my head I lay motionless in bed I thought of you and where you'd gone and let the world spin madly on Everything that I said I'd do Like make the world brand new And take the time for you I just got lost and slept right through the dawn And the world spins madly on I let the day go by I always say goodbye I watch the stars from my window sill The whole world is moving and I'm...

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Have you gone before me?

kjackson — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:38:26 +0000

The universality of this grief is not lost on me. Yesterday I took a walk through the wooded paths Joe made for me and when I came to his metal chair, I felt my heart crack and the sobbing commenced. I so badly wanted him sitting in that chair...a flesh and blood body that my hands could...

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Missing My Guy but No Regrets

kjackson — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:01:25 +0000

When I take inventory of my life at this moment in time, I can honestly say that *everything* is good....everything except for missing my Joe. But that missing is paramount. I feel like I've been through surgery and someone has cut away half of me. There are no words for this kind of...

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