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Jennifer Searls

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May 31, 2021

Ordinary Grace – William Kent Krueger

Grief, hope, Reading

When we feel abandoned, alone, and lost, what’s left to us? What do I have, what do you have, what do any of us have left except the overpowering temptation to rail against God and to blame him for the dark night into which he’s led us, to blame him for our misery, to blame …

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April 19, 2020

write it on your heart

17 beats, Alaska, hope

In the long dark and the deep cold this day can be hard to remember.

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March 23, 2020

take me to the river

Grief, hope, prayer, Window Thinking

I logged onto Facebook several times today, intending to post about the COVID-19 POUNDS that I fear are a very real risk associated with the current Work From Home HUNKER DOWN policy in Anchorage. I mean!!! We’ve got Ethan managing our lunch room!!! #realsideffects I never actually wrote the post though because there was something …

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March 14, 2020

living into the light

Alaska, beauty, hope, Seasons, Window Thinking

We’ve come through another dark winter here in Anchorage and light is returning  at a rate of nearly 6 additional minutes/day. This picture is from my walk at 8:30p, just after sunset last night.  Deep winter dark is behind us now and the 24/7 light is coming at us fast. I’ve lived the dramatic dark/light/dark/light …

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February 15, 2013

Hope In Half A Banana

Grief, hope, Window Thinking

I think we lose sight of the beauty, the most beautiful things I look back on in my life are coming out from underneath things I didn’t know I could get out from underneath. You know, the moments I look back in my life, and think, those were the moments that made me — were …

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