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Out on a limb.

by nic
Posted on December 15, 2018December 16, 2018

The December I turned maybe nine, we arrived like ninjas in Indiana. My uncles and…

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One of the surest gifts of my life is how this guy dreams with me. He’ll hear the slow burn in my voice when I talk about children or Kenya, wood fired pizza or London or backpacking or people displaced, and he’ll let his heart catch fire too.

Growing up, we had a fridge magnet with that Elizabeth Stone quote — how being a mom means watching your heart walk around outside your body. At the time I found this sentimental and overbaked.

“O Come, all you unfaithful

Last fall one of our old dorm guys wrote to tell us he was headed to college in the States. We’d been praying with him for exactly this, but I was equal parts thrilled and concerned. My immediate response was to turn to my husband and ask, “Do you think anyone’s warned him? Do you think he knows the things to do to stay alive?”⁣

Braden, you wonderful human.⁣

Today is our anniversary. Three years ago it was also our anniversary, because apparently that’s how anniversaries work, and I spent the bulk of that day painting the interior walls of a hospital with Lauren and my soul-twin Jannae.⁣

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