Taking the muumuu out of maternity fashion

"In the olden days, a pregnant woman’s due date was obliquely referred to has her 'estimated date of confinement.' And no wonder, you wouldn’t want to leave the house in the maternity muumuus of old."

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Adagio for Souls: God's Gradual Work

"God has begun the gradual metallurgy of fall. Outside my window, down to the left, He’s refining one tree into pure gold.

It quivers ever so slightly each day as it moves from one degree of gilded glory to the next. Just beyond the edge of the dark green forest, I can see touches of copper and bronze. But the furnace of change heats so gradually, I cannot perceive exactly how the vista has altered from the day before. Like most things God does, it’s subdued, unhurried, and steady."

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