What I Learned From 2008 – Jennifer Dukes Lee
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I am a mom, wife and writer living in northwest Iowa.
On my quirky faith walk, I am learning anew each day that God often appears when and where I least expect to find Him. And that’s where my blog, Getting Down With Jesus, comes in. I share my unexpected encounters with God in sometimes-crazy, sometimes-serious places. Like the altar … or the bathroom. I explore the ways God does His Thing in the ordinary-ness of life.
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Here are my 2008 “best-of” contributions.
- July – Faith Journeys, Burning Hearts – This was my first month of blogging. I had only two choices – one about the swallowed marble sitting in my daughter’s stomach as we prayed for a “movement”, and one about faith journeys. I picked the one about faith journeys. Need I explain?
- August – Living Water – I was still barely blogging in August – with a mere four posts. My favorite was a blog post about my experience as a godparent, standing at the baptismal font of my nephew.
- September – God Among the Weeds – My 4-year-old helped me see God in an unexpected place. Where I saw weeds, she saw the handiwork of God.
- October – Going Green – The beauty of God’s Living Word fell afresh on me as I watched what happened when my 7-year-old took her green highlighter to the first chapter of Genesis.
- November – A Day of Blessing – The day started well before dawn, when I took my little girl to the surgery center. Through tears and Bandaids, we felt God reaching down to us.
- December – Bailout – It was Sunday morning. The communion bread was headed my way. And there I was, daydreaming about a GM Bailout.
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Faith Journeys, Burning Hearts was my favorite.
You seemed to put yourself into your post.
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Jennifer, I can’t say how glad I am that you decided to begin blogging! Your posts, all of them, are so endearing and inspiring to read…..and learn from.
And I love September’s post about how such a child can find beauty in the mist of weeds……we can all learn from our younger one’s can’t we? But it also says a lot about you and dad as parents, that you teach them about God’s creation through everything!
I have never met you yet feel like the short time I’ve learned about you has been like you’re a dear, dear friend who I’ve known for years. I just wish I had the priveledge of knowing you in person; it has been a great honor reading your posts!!!
~Sarah
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Jennifer, I loved your October’s post about the story for Going Green…
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