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    I voted for Trump in 2016 and I was ashamed. Here’s what I’m doing differently in 2020.

    By Jenny Uebbing

    4 years ago seems like a lifetime, honestly. I had 4 kids instead of 6. We were still renters. I was still juggling part time work on someone else’s schedule, trying to make everything fit. The run…

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    Surprised by homemaking.

    By Jenny Uebbing

    In this phase of life – of parenthood? Of 2020? – time seems exceedingly distorted. Mornings stretch out into almost infinity as I process load after load of laundry only to look up and see that it’s…

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    So it’s … September?

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I am finding myself oddly relieved that summer is on its way out whilst simultaneously dreading the advent of Fall for, perhaps, the first time in my adult life. I have always loved PSL season, the thrill…

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    The wonder of the last baby

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I hold my breath, waiting for another cry to pierce the midnight air. Ten, twenty seconds pass. Maybe I imagined it. Then a wail goes up like a fire engine and I push myself up and swing…

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    An incarnate Jesus necessitates incarnate worship

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Let me start this off with a big ol 2020 caveat: if you’re concerned about transmitting or contracting covid, whether because of an underlying condition or an immunocompromised person in your life, you should be free to…

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    Kids burned through the entire Disney+ catalogue and it’s only July? Try this to get back into the swing of learning.

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I know I should be gently nudging our days back towards something resembling structure, particularly structure of the academic variety, but with the prospect of a very, very different sort of back to school season looming over…

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    The tyranny of unforgiveness

    By Jenny Uebbing

    In what attention I’ve paid to recent news cycles, the dominant theme – the one thing that we still collectively agree on, one might be forgiven for thinking – is anger. Anger with causes both righteous and…

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    A stupid easy habit that might just change your life

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Lately, prayer has been um, more ejaculatory in nature. Less journaling and contented silence spent in the adoration chapel, more shouting the Lord’s name decidedly not in vain and hoping that the kids understand mommy isn’t swearing,…

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    He is doing a new thing.

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I can’t count how many times over these past few months I’ve stopped and rolled my eyes (and maybe shaken my metaphorical fists a tiny little bit) heavenward and asked God “WHAT ARE YOU DOING? SERIOUSLY, WHAT?WHY??”…

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    Not fit for social Me-dia

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Hi, hey, how are you guys? Long time no, um, write. Right, so anyway, picking up in a less emotionally fragile state at the moment. Maybe we can just, you know, pretend the past 4 months or…

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