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The purity of kids' reactions to a new sibling
I don’t have her permission to use the little video clip, so I’ll just have to describe it. It came from a mother of six who’d just learned of a seventh child on the way. The clip was her husband telling the kids, all lined up on the couch, that they were going to have another brother or sister. Now, if you’ve ever had the pleasure of sharing such news with your own children, you know the kind of…
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I have a dream, too...
I have a dream, too…
I think I would have gotten along well with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I have always had a deep sense of justice, and injustice, like him. And like him, I’ve been willing to put myself on the line for it. I’m not saying I’m anything close to the great MLK Jr. Just that I get him. This week, we’ve heralded the life and mission of this prophetic man, and I find it so interesting how it all…
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The delight of writing another children's book
The delight of writing another children’s book
While my husband and his friend Joel were off in Texas this past weekend, watching the North Dakota State University Bison win their record-setting five-peat…
I was here at home, hunkered down writing a children’s book about the place where the bison really do roam: North Dakota.
This past fall, everything became very official. The contract that had been talked about for months was signed. (A…
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Faith Conversations: Lazarus 'arises,' bringing Christmas miracle
Faith Conversations: Lazarus ‘arises,’ bringing Christmas miracle
Patrick and Annette Schultz stand with their Christmas tree Friday, Dec. 18, 2015, in their Fargo home. The tree was ordered the same day Patrick suffered his cardiac arrest. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
“Miracles are not a contradiction of nature. They are only in contradiction of what we know of nature.” — St. Augustine
FARGO — “Lazarus is here!” The words boomed from our front porch,…
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Living Faith: Best Christmas gifts still being unwrapped
Living Faith: Best Christmas gifts still being unwrapped
Each passing year, I find the Christmas season more packed with meaning and emotion of every kind. This was no less true this year as I savored the anticipatory days leading up to Christmas, desiring to take it all in slowly and purposefully.
This mindset led me straight into a mini-meltdown the evening of Dec. 23, however, the night of our traditional Salonen dinner and gift exchange, which…
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To Bury the Dead
To Bury the Dead
It was my youngest son’s teacher who reminded me of it.
I’d shared with her in an email what my son had been up to during break; how his Christmas vacation turned out a little different than we’d planned. I told her about how my grandmother had died on Dec. 28, and how my youngest two sons were with me in Bismarck for an extended stay the night my Mom called with the sad news that Grandma had…
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One Word for 2016: Trust
One Word for 2016: Trust
I started pondering my Word for 2016 at the end of 2015. And I was pretty content with it.
Then, everything changed.
Before I get into that, though, it might be helpful to explain what all this “Word for the Year” stuff is about. It started…when did it start? The furthest back I can find is 2011, but my friend Mary from Play Off the Page, who gave me the idea, and I thought of words in hindsight…
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One Word for 2016: Trust
One Word for 2016: Trust
I started pondering my Word for 2016 at the end of 2015. And I was pretty content with it.
Then, everything changed.
Before I get into that, though, it might be helpful to explain what all this “Word for the Year” stuff is about. It started…when did it start? The furthest back I can find is 2011, but my friend Mary from Play Off the Page, who gave me the idea, and I thought of words in hindsight…
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Faith Conversations: American Heritage Girls, focuses on prayer, service
Faith Conversations: American Heritage Girls, focuses on prayer, service
Isabelle Snyder, 11, left, and Autumn Kotrba, 11, of the American Heritage Girls works on a tie blanket Nov. 12 at Holy Spirit School, Fargo. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
FARGO – As a young girl, Lynn Kotrba of Moorhead looked with yearning at the fun her friends in Girl Scouts seemed to be having.
But for her, it was not to be. The daughter of a police officer and mother who died when…
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It's a most...emotional time...of the year
It’s a most…emotional time…of the year
Advent has become one of my most cherished seasons of the year.
The songs that draw us into the reality that our savior is coming, the anticipation, the sparks of light appearing on the horizon, the thinking of others and plotting and planning to help bring a little joy to the world…
This is just one section of Concordia College’s massive Christmas concert banner.
It is a magnificent…
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Living Faith: Chance to dance with grandma's soul a gift
Living Faith: Chance to dance with grandma’s soul a gift
The last time we visited, we tried celebrating her 101st birthday.
When Mom called to make reservations, the restaurant even promised a cake to mark the event.
But Grandma would have none of it. She just closed her eyes and pretended she was elsewhere. When I tried to coax her into joining our world for a while, she swatted me away.
I strained the rest of the meal to keep the mood light and…
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The hope I find in a Satanist's admissions
The hope I find in a Satanist’s admissions
Yesterday, the Washington Post published a story about a spokesperson for a Satanic temple in Detroit who went through an abortion and then went public with the experience.
Despite the nature of the content itself, which those with a formed conscience will find unsettling, as I read through the piece, I kept discovering traces of unexpected hope.
Morguefile: http://www.morguefile.com/archive/disp…
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Faith Conversations: Parochial counselors address the soul in school
Faith Conversations: Parochial counselors address the soul in school
Instructor Elysia Libbrecht listed answers from West Fargo Trinity Elementary kindergarten students when asked what to do when they get mad. Dave Wallis/The Forum
FARGO – The little boy had been having quite a time of it, and in the process of those emotional growing pains, he’d earned the nickname, “A-man.”
“It’s kind of like ‘Amen,’ ” he’d said happily one day, within earshot of many.
When the…
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Glitz, glamour and an empty manger: Cecile Richards visits Fargo
Glitz, glamour and an empty manger: Cecile Richards visits Fargo
The idea to carol had come in what seemed to me a Holy Spirit tap to my friend Sally.
We’d just learned that Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards would be visiting Fargo for a fundraising gala in our city. It seemed right that those of us who have seen the darkness of this organization would want to do something to express our feelings. Our pro-life community here aims for peaceful discourse,…
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Meeting Cecile Richards in Fargo with a Christmas carol
Meeting Cecile Richards in Fargo with a Christmas carol
Tomorrow, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards will be Downtown Fargo for a fundraising event.
This is the same Downtown Fargo where I go most Wednesdays to pray for the women who enter the Red River Women’s Clinic — our state’s only abortion facility — with life in their wombs but fear in their hearts, and come out wounded, with an irreversible “choice” implanted on their souls.
It wouldn’t…
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Living Faith: Gluttony a sneaky sin that loves this season
Living Faith: Gluttony a sneaky sin that loves this season
The turkey has yet to be carved, but already, the sugarplums have begun dancing in my head. Only this holiday season, they’re wearing a bit of a mischievous grin.
As they bow and curtsy so cutely, I’m reminded of a sin I’d chosen for years to ignore: gluttony.
I’m likely not alone in having blissfully overlooked this sinister sidekick. Gluttony has become so infused into our culture as to…
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Finding you're not alone...
Finding you’re not alone…
After quite a few years of attending our local chapter of Lutherans for Life annual dessert banquet, this year, I was asked to be keynote speaker. Always impressed by their speakers and passion, I felt honored to have a chance to share what I might about the topic, “Speaking Up for Life — Every One of Us.”
I had some stories to share, about my own pro-life journey, and about how the soil for my…
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