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By Julia Attaway

May 2012

  • Seeing God by Seeing the Bigger Picture
    May 30, 2012

    Mary lost a shoe the other day, a dance shoe for an upcoming performance.

    We prayed and looked, searched and beseeched, to no avail. Mary headed off to ballet frantic, as distraught as only a 13-year-old girl can be. I fervently hoped the shoe was at the ballet studio. If it wasn’t, we’d have to buy a new pair.

    This happened in the midst of a too-busy day, half a week before payday at the end of a very tight month. I looked heavenward and moaned, Really, God? A lost shoe?

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  • Clearing Out Our Hearing
    May 23, 2012

    Some of my kids have a hearing problem. They ask the same question repeatedly, without noticing the answers. There are specific words their ears apparently don’t always process, including no, go, later, stop and maybe.

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  • A Prayer of Complete Devotion
    May 16, 2012

    I recently read a biography of Mother Angelica, the feisty nun who founded the Eternal Word Television Network.

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  • A Prayer for Those Who Irritate Us
    May 9, 2012

    At our house we have a saying: “No matter where you go, no matter what you do, there will always be at least one annoying person.”

    It’s an unfortunate fact of life, but we have to figure out how to work with the people who get under our skin ... and even learn to love them. To which my kids reply skeptically, “But how?” Here’s what I tell them:

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  • Removing Obstacles to Devotion
    May 2, 2012

    I’ve been trying a prayer experiment lately. Whenever I start to get annoyed with my kids or my spouse I pray, Show me the plank in my own eye, Lord (from Luke 6:42).

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Julia Attaway is a freelance writer, homeschooler and mother of five. She is the editor of Daily Guideposts: Your First Year of Motherhood, a book of devotions for first-time moms. She lives in New York.