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First let me wave to all my friends out there! Hi! We’ve been gone ALL SUMMER LONG. It’s nuts. It’s crazy. We touched both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans this summer in efforts to do some fundraising for RUF. And I don’t think we recouped our costs yet — but that’s another story.

What I want to actually blog about — yes, blog you say? I know, you’re staring in disbelief given I haven’t posted in 4 months! — is Ministry of Reality Mondays. Some of my lovely online friends over at Mothering by Grace, a parenting forum I belong to, are starting a weekly blog round-up where the focus is:

“is being able to be REAL about life. Homes are not always (not *usually* even!) spotless, children are not always dressed adorably, children do not always “behave,” marriage is hard, and there aren’t simple answers to hard questions. Being honest about all of this makes it easier (in my opinion) to live life… because we can ASK for help about problems we aren’t covering up. We can be encouraged by others’ stories of surviving similar seasons and trials.”

Being real, being vulnerable. . . in that we can ask for help from others, be approachable when others need our help. In the Ministry of Reality we can acknowledge just how dependent we are on God’s grace daily, and (hopefully, prayerfully, fallenly) show what that dependence looks like.

I’m excited to start and since the kids are waking up from their naptime, it’s likely to be Ministry of Reality Tuesday — because tonight is Reality *show* (hubby and I watch HGTV’s Design Star the night after on Hulu, so shhhh no spoilers!!) night. So I’ll be back tomorrow, complete with links to other bloggers.

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