This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog Recently the church I used to belong to started an Emergency Clothes Closet. This ministry offers free clothes to people in need in our community. They don’t have to have any connection with the church. I’m excited about this because when...
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This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog. Recently I was at the grocery store checking out. I realized I needed to go to the restroom and asked the checkout person if I could leave my cart there and go when she was all finished. A lot of the checkout...
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Esther did this drawing last summer in her summer art class. The school liked it and displayed it in the hallway when the school year began. Not only that, they chose it as one of the art pieces to go in the 2009-2010 Academic Catalog! The catalog, which goes to all students, lists...
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We celebrated the New Year with a chocolate cake. Esther made it, came up with the design and decorated it.
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I got Esther some yarn and a crochet hook for Christmas so she could learn crochet. We crocheted together: in a few days she not only had learned several stitches but was making up her own flower designs! The photo shows a few of the shapes we crocheted (three are mine, the rest...
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This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog. This is my third New Year’s since the onset of Crohn’s Disease. Thinking about New Year’s resolutions can be depressing with a chronic illness. How can I resolve to do anything ahead of time when I don’t know I’ll be feeling? I read...
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