Katie Smith
My Turn!
"God sometimes allows you to be tested in a way that requires you to sacrifice your own well-being. At such times, it seems only right...
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CAREFULLY CARELESS
Living and traveling with peace in organized chaos
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Katie Smith
May 193 min read
Forcing it to Fit
Square peg in a round hole. Too tight. Too small. There are a million and one ways to say that something doesn't work, but it takes...
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Katie Smith
May 133 min read
Red Eyes Moments- No Filter
We brought a few photo books with us in the rig, and the boys found an old picture from college where Matthew and I both have red eyes....
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Katie Smith
May 53 min read
The end of the story
You know those cartoons where a character is running around doing so much that smoke spews from her ears and springs fly out with dust...
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Katie Smith
Apr 293 min read
New Kids on the Block
Being the "new kid on the block" can feel like your a shiny new toy-- fresh, fun, and fairly mysterious. No one knows your full...
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Katie Smith
Apr 213 min read
Cross Between Camp and Mission
We sort of feel like we have been living in a constant state of summer camp mixed with a mission trip. Our stuff is jammed in trunks,...
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Katie Smith
Apr 133 min read
What are we doing here?
I have often asked myself why are we here? We aren't serving, volunteering, or giving our time in the traditional sense, and the teacher ...
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Katie Smith
Apr 63 min read
Not crushing it
Sometime last year we had a zoom meeting with community group leaders from our church. The breakout sessions all began with an open-ended...
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Katie Smith
Mar 313 min read
Faithless Wind--blown down by breeze
A breeze blesses hot skin. A feeling that the Lord is with you on a hot day. A gust tears away everything in its path. A feeling that God...
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Katie Smith
Mar 243 min read
My Oxygen Mask
Recently my cavity-prone child had to get a few more "quadrants" of baby teeth filled, mostly due to overcrowding and a strong gag, but I...
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Katie Smith
Mar 173 min read
Mary Poppins Pride
If you've ever met someone who always has the very thing you need in the very moment you need it, then you've met my mother. Whether its...
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Katie Smith
Mar 103 min read
A Decade Later, A Different Road
10 years ago we were traveling by car (as seen above) in the countryside of southern France. Our travel garmand was dying and our small,...
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Katie Smith
Mar 33 min read
Roses or thorns-which do you see?
We had finally made the kitchen at our first home the way I would have wanted it all those many meals made during the years prior. But we...
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Katie Smith
Feb 253 min read
Finding our Swing, on the Road
I picked up a great biography for my own summer reading last year, "Boys in a Boat." If you're not into crew, rowing, Nazi Germany, or...
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Katie Smith
Feb 153 min read
Is this normal?
In all my pediatric medical experience (which only amounts to a little less than a decade of intensive motherly care units), I've...
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Katie Smith
Jan 193 min read
Contagious virus
One of my deepest triggers for anxiety when I was growing up was illness. Like most people, I hated being sick, so I thought if I could...
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Katie Smith
Jan 53 min read
What should we keep?
As we took down Christmas decorations this year, I heard a lot of "NO NOT THAT!" Because much of them went into donation bags or trash...
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Katie Smith
Dec 16, 20233 min read
No room left
When my kids do not want to hear what I have to say because it goes against their plans, they cover their ears with cupped hands and hope...
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Katie Smith
Nov 28, 20233 min read
We are getting off...
Stepping off the hamster wheel A friend just told us, "I get up, take the kids to school, workout, work, come home, eat dinner, play with...
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Katie Smith
Nov 14, 20233 min read
Not Depressed, but Discontent.
We can have all that we need physically, know our purpose spiritually, and be healthy mentally, yet still wrestle with discontentment....
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