HeyJaredA Faithful Life with Lisa Jacobson
Encouragement for the woman who wants to live and love well — in faith, marriage, friendship, and family. The quiet, lifelong work of loving well.
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He’s Here (opens the original)
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Refuge (opens the original)
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Matt’s boyhood is the stuff of legend in our house.How his family moved from Oregon to the interior of British Columbia, and at ten years old he walked a mile to the bus stop in twenty-nine-degrees-below-zero weather. How he hunted moose and bear with his brother and his father. How he was given his own horse, and how, for much of the summer, he’d climb on that horse and simply disappear—sometimes with his sister, more often alone—not turning up again until dinnertime, or dark.Our kids grew up o
What Happens After the Kids Go Down (opens the original)
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(If you missed Part 1, you can read it here: How We Plan a Family Vacation That Actually Brings Us Closer—>)It was originally Matt’s idea.Between you and me, I wasn’t convinced it was a particularly good one. So he explained it again, as though I hadn’t understood him the first time.“Babe, it’s like this. We’re going to ask each person in the family to pick a song that’s meaningful to them. Not just a favorite — one that s
How We Plan a Family Vacation That Actually Brings Us Closer (opens the original)
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I was mid-baby-shower-hosting — “Ahoy! It’s a Boy” cupcakes displayed, chairs arranged, the whole production — when I noticed a longtime friend of mine slip over to my kitchen wall and take a picture of it.Not the wall itself, mind you. The schedule taped to it. Our Family Vacay plan, left up from the week before because I hadn’t gotten around to taking it down.Then another woman walked over. Then a few more. Within minutes I had a curious crowd studying a color-coded grid of who was making brea
The Kindness We Save for Strangers (opens the original)
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Odd to think that this whole thing started with a complete stranger.I’d left the house in a rush that day, trying to squeeze in a few errands before an appointment Matt and I had later that afternoon, and somehow I landed in the slowest line in the grocery store. I peered around the person in front of me to see what the holdup was.That’s when I saw her.It took about three seconds to realize this cashier was having a terrible day and had decided the rest of us were going to know it. She rang up e
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