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Kathy Gallagher
Dec 94 min read
Five Things
We are seeing everything with new eyes this Christmas season, because everything IS new. And also because our eyes are, well, aging.
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Kathy Gallagher
Nov 47 min read
Step 24: Fill your deer tag.
I occasionally whisper prayers that God will grant my mobility-challenged, excellent marksman husband the chance to shoot a buck.
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Kathy Gallagher
Sep 115 min read
Step 12: List your house!
There is beauty in the muddle of the middle, not just in crossing the finish line.
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Kathy Gallagher
Jul 216 min read
Step Eight: Prepare for home.
It’s a new life for us both. A treasure. And also an obstacle course with no guide book.
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Kathy Gallagher
Jul 103 min read
Step Seven: Pretend you're normal.
Touches of “normal” in an extremely abnormal life are both welcome and weird.
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Kathy Gallagher
Jul 75 min read
Step Six: Face your giants.
Life—even life that flirts with scary stuff—is sweet and good when you have support around you.
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Kathy Gallagher
Jun 274 min read
Step Five: Add some wheels.
It’s an honored, front-row seat, but a powerless one. I drive nothing, react to everything.
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Kathy Gallagher
Jun 205 min read
Step Four: Hard and holy work.
God defines what is true and good and beautiful. We acknowledge our helpless state. And then we hand him the scalpel.
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Kathy Gallagher
Jun 17 min read
If you don't come home (or even if you do)...
You stopped my heart the other day. We listened to one doctor and then a second one talk about your body, your labs, and what numbers...
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Kathy Gallagher
Mar 314 min read
Easter has its lows and highs.
If like me you’re feeling all-too-human, you’ll understand the inner wrestling between the broken and the divine, the lows and highs of...
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Kathy Gallagher
Mar 273 min read
Good Friday.
There wasn’t much that was good about that Friday. Well, maybe the self-righteous religious leaders, who somewhere along the line decided...
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Kathy Gallagher
Dec 10, 20236 min read
The longest night of the year.
The darkness is advancing and the longest night of the year is coming. But so, also, is the light. I glance outside at the dark sky, and...
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Kathy Gallagher
Sep 25, 20227 min read
Worship lessons.
Every bound toward me, every plaintive cry, every puppy kiss and the way her muscles relax in my presence teaches me a little more about...
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Kathy Gallagher
May 7, 20222 min read
The Other Half of Hannah
Some people change your life forever. It’s impossible to calculate how many people have enriched and impacted me and shaped who I am over...
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Kathy Gallagher
Apr 2, 20222 min read
Dark nights and daylight
You might want to rethink that decision you made hastily in the darkest of nights. Turns out in a dark night it’s easy to miss important...
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Kathy Gallagher
Dec 21, 20214 min read
The hole in the middle of Christmas
For my friends who are grieving. I see you. At least I imagine I do. I see you walking around, looking so fine and doing Christmas. But...
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Kathy Gallagher
Oct 23, 20214 min read
SAPS: Saturday Analysis Paralysis Syndrome.
I just made that up; it's not a real thing. Unless maybe you're an Enneagram Nine Wing One. Then you know exactly what I'm talking...
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Kathy Gallagher
Oct 10, 20213 min read
Sunday perspective
If nesting with your journal is a luxury you have not yet discovered, let me prime the pump for you on this chilly Sunday morning!...
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Kathy Gallagher
Jul 26, 202110 min read
Then and now.
It was a different time, yet the same somehow. Simpler, slower, smaller--but still with its full share of fear, disappointment,...
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Kathy Gallagher
Jun 12, 20214 min read
Puppy Daze
If your story isn’t good, it’s because you haven’t arrived at the ending yet. I awoke in a daze, wondering about the odd, rhythmic,...
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