So I have a curse when it comes to cats. My first cat, Tony ( short for Antonio Banderas), came home from Richmond Animal League at five months old and died a little over a year later of a freak blood clot that left both of his back legs suddenly paralyzed. The doctor said he…
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40:40 Day 28
Once upon a time I thought I was in love. For once, it was with a man who loved Jesus. Ok, so we weren’t dating. At all. But, everyone thought we would get together at any moment, including me. We hung out ALL the time, mostly in groups but there was some alone time, too. …
40:40 Day 26
I felt completely discouraged. The Bible study Heather and I had been leading together was a flop. We had been so excited to provide a place for women from our job to come and learn about Jesus, but attendance was sporadic at best and it usually ended up being just us and our friend Tiffany,…
40:40 Day 25
Once upon a time I worked with a girl who was being tormented by demons. She confessed to me one slow afternoon that her boyfriend had been followed by them, and had brought them into her apartment, and now she would go home in the middle of the day and try to take a nap…
40:40 Day 24
Never ask God to humble you. I can’t clearly remember why, but for some reason I was feeling like a hot shot at work. I must have gotten a lot of guest compliments, or maybe I scored high on some Secret Shopper reports. All I know is, I was so prideful that I got convicted…
40:40 Day 23
One perk of moving to Richmond was that my job had a branch twenty minutes away from my new home. One downside was that three people I really did not want to work with again had transferred down a year ago to open the store. One manager was the most nit-picky, arrogant and condescending person I’d ever met,…
40:40 Day 22
The night we prayed over a one-armed woman in MCV’s emergency room started innocently enough. Julia and I were leading Tuesday night Bible study at my first floor duplex on Idlewood. Every week we’d have between six to twelve women (mostly college age) packed in my cheery yellow living room to share food, laughs, and…
40:40 Day 21
Have you ever been in love with an alcoholic? I don’t recommend it. I met Rick when I was twenty, and we were engaged and living together within a month. He was twenty-four and charming and cute and so much fun. And he really liked to party. Like, all the time. I quickly realized that…
40:40 Day 20
My first car was a 1998 Dodge Neon, and it was a piece of crap. My head gasket (whatever that is) flooded not once but twice, causing my engine to shut off on a ramp to the highway with a huge semi-truck behind me. Thank God I was able to pull off to the side…
40:40 Day 19
Moving stinks. Weeks of packing, cancelling utilities, cleaning..it’s one chore after another! I’d done most of what I needed to do, but had procrastinated on letting my old roommate know we were moving. We rented the stacked washer and dryer that she’d brought with her when we’d first moved in, and she could be slightly…
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