Tag: worry
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Big toeing the line… or not
“Ooooh,” my husband said, “Why don’t you shoot a photo of it and post it to Facebook?” He was being sarcastic, of course. My husband has little use for Facebook perusal or posting, and he was pointing at my big toe. Seriously? Who would shoot a photo of her toe? “Of course not,” I scorned. […]
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No longer worrying that “it could happen to me”…
I’ve been reading the book of Job with my literature students recently, and we all agree that we wouldn’t want to claim Job’s comforters for ourselves. They weren’t very comforting. Sure, when Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar first arrived, they grieved with calamity Job silently—but once they opened their mouths, their apparent support for Job deteriorated […]
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Out of (my) control…
I was getting the batting line-up from our head coach just before our final game of the season, when I got a surprise admission. “I get more nervous coaching than I ever did playing,” Coach Zach told me, which I found amazing since he had played ball professionally. “I guess it’s because it’s all out […]