When Darkness Closes In

Now that the busy season of holidays is over and family visits cease, the cold creeps in. I live in an older home and we have a constant draft no matter how many times we weather strip our doors and windows and get our heating unit looked at. It is just cold. This time of the year seems to sit...

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the body, in motion

  I wish I could have God’s view of Montgomery Bell State Park this Saturday.   I’ll have friends there, eyes on the ground, and they’ll report back to me: it was good.   But even they won’t have the full view of what’s really going on – what’s happening in and through the...

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It Keeps You Running …

Each year, we celebrate the memory of Bane Beasley with a birthday party that’s not your typical fruit punch-and-pinata fare.  His family, friends, and people who never even met him all get together and sweat out their support for families who are laboring through the sudden loss of a child.  We...

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ready to run?

Pictured above: Winners of the 2011 Banebow 5K Fun Run/Walk Each year, we celebrate the memory of Bane Beasley with a birthday party that’s not your typical fruit punch-and-pinata fare.  His family, friends, and people who never even met him all get together and sweat out their support for...

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Chasing a Banebow

image credit here It’s not the  Iron Man championship. It’s not the Tour de France. But it is a celebration of  one special little boy who would have turned one year old on October 23, 2010 … a boy who will touch the lives of others  for years to...

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RSVP

Sweet Baby Bane has a birthday. Notice the verb. Not sweet Baby Bane had a birthday, he has one. It’s October 23rd.  And it will always be his. Now, the look of that day has changed this year.  Plans that were being brainstormed around — the theme (maybe a jungle theme, to match his...

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