5 Powerful Songs for Your Hero this Father’s Day
I compiled a list of favorite songs about dads and grandpas, in an attempt to create the perfect playlist for your hero this Father’s Day.
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I Felt Like My Dead Grandmother Was Right There Next to Me Buying Plants
For a few seconds, my dead grandmother was right there next to me shopping for plants. I was walking through the garden center of H-E-B Plus on a particularly muggy August afternoon. I was leisurely picking out plants and loading them onto my cart, despite the heat. I felt like my dead grandmother was right…
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Celebrating Our Family’s Irish Roots on Saint Patrick’s Day
Our daughters truly have the luck of the Irish in their blood. On Saint Patrick’s Day, my husband and I celebrate the birthdays of two of our ancestors. We also celebrate our Irish roots on both sides of our family with traditional Irish food and drink. Celebrating our family’s Irish roots on Saint Patrick’s Day…
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9 Important Things My Late Grandmother Taught Me
I was honored to deliver the eulogy at my maternal grandmother, Myrle Dee Grubbs Benton‘s funeral. In her eulogy, I talked about nine important things my late grandmother taught me. 9 Important Things My Late Grandmother Taught Me My grandmother was a wife, a mother, an aunt, a grandmother, and a friend. But, most of…
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How I Found Myself Finally Craving the Unity of Liturgy
I never thought I’d find myself in liturgy. I was raised in the Church of Christ in Texas in the 1990s. My father was raised Episcopalian in Texas in the 1960s, only because there happened to be an Episcopal church across the street from his house. My father’s father was raised Swiss Mennonite in Kansas…
