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We found adventure
I plop FA-style onto my seat on the front row of our plane to Chicago. Billy and Gabe sit near the window to my left. I breathe out slowly as the plane rumbles down the runway and elevates into the land of clouds – no Wifi and no distractions. I close my eyes gently with…
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That’s what love is
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I want to take time to reflect on the man who painted a picture of love like no other. My dad loved everyone around him, but he especially loved his family so well. When I think of what he taught me, I think about the wisdom with which he spent…
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Our kind of singing
My dad wrote a song for me called “Sing For You.” For so long, I thought nothing more of it than it’s him making up for the voice I lack, but now I realize you don’t need a loud or pretty voice to sing for others. Today marks a year since his passing, and as…
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You live and you learn
It’s been over nine months since that dark June evening in the hotel room. It’s been almost six months since I wrote my last post on this site, “I’m sorry.” At that point, while I knew I had begun “moving forward,” I was still doing a lot of “processing.” (those are all titles of previous…
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I’m sorry
As my dad rolled out of our hotel room on a stretcher and down the halls of our Holiday Inn in Huntsville, I realized that might be goodbye. “I’m sorry, dad. I love you” are the only words I could muster up. And that has been a feeling that has crept in on me every…
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Processing…
Grief doesn’t end after a week, a month, or even a year. It has been over two months since my dad passed away, and everything just feels different. While I still miss him a lot, and it still feels crazy, it has finally set in. He’s gone. That is proof that I’m moving along in…
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Moving forward
Here’s probably the toughest part of losing my dad — moving forward. Moving forward hurts, but it is inevitable. Although his life ended so abruptly, mine is, Lord-willing, far from over. I am in the middle of college and in a defining part of my life. Checking out or taking a year off is not…
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All things will be made new
I won’t lie to y’all — me and my dad’s relationship was not perfect. It’s the effect of the Fall. Things were broken, especially after my onset of FA. It doesn’t diminish my love for him or his love for me, though. Here’s the cause of most of our arguments: I have trouble speaking up…
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Home is where you are
Today, I’m just going to tell a short story of God’s provision in the life of my family. If you doubt that God is working or present in your life, read this and consider. At the end of last semester when I was in my second semester at Auburn, I struggled mentally and emotionally. I…
Farewell, Dad 