JESSE IHDE

nothing is perfect. everything is right.

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April 2013

Dyers and Dreams

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by | April 18, 2013
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Most of the time my perspective of God’s love and of the spiritual elements of the universe are still limited in my mind by the physical realms.  Like it’s hard to see or touch or taste or hear Him and recognize His love displaying itself actively.  Like when my mom calls me and says, “Are you cold?  You should put on a sweater,” even though I am, perhaps, in the bath.  She loves me and is thinking of me and trying to keep me warm from where she is, which is one mile due south.  I can feel that and …

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Sunday

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April 2013

Why Now?

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Almost six years ago, I had the privilege of bringing Stella James Ihde into this world.  I remember driving home the night before I was going to be induced.  (My husband is 6’8” and I’m 5’6” and every sonographer on the planet freaks out when she imagines me carrying that man’s baby).  So the night before I was to be induced Josh and I were driving home in separate cars from my sisters house.  He stopped in front of me at a stoplight and I called him on the phone and said, “I think I’m out of room.”  And he …

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Tuesday

13

November 2012

Clarity

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by | November 13, 2012
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Mother Teresa said, “I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust.  So I will pray that you trust God.”  This makes me a little sad.  I desire clarity and if God didn’t give it to Mother Teresa, I think the rest of us are assuredly screwed on the issue.  So bare with me in the moments when I miss a step. I’ve been waiting to hit the publish button for more than six years, but I believe successful failures have brought me to some of the most beautiful moments in my life so I’m willing to …

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