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shawnmariespry
Jun 17, 20233 min read
Abba, Daddy!
Celebrating our son's marriage to his bride caused me to think longingly of the biggest and best party that will happen at the end of days,
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shawnmariespry
May 20, 20239 min read
Adoption Not Abortion
Adoption Not Abortion. Your Baby, Your Choice: Closed Adoption, Open Adoption? I hope more moms and dads will consider adoption.
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shawnmariespry
Apr 22, 20235 min read
Ghost of Easter Past
Fifteen years ago...the Holy Ghost made a special visit. He drilled deep into my soul, causing me to be overcome with sorrow...
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shawnmariespry
Jan 22, 20233 min read
Be'ad Chaim
Though it is wonderful, parenting can be hard work. As followers of Messiah, we must provide mothers in need with help...
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shawnmariespry
Nov 6, 20223 min read
Reproductive Freedom for All
Reproductive Freedom for All, Vote No on Proposal 3, Protect Michigan Families, Women, Men and Babies
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shawnmariespry
Oct 15, 20224 min read
Rescue
Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, “But we knew nothing about this..." Proverbs
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shawnmariespry
Sep 17, 20222 min read
Babies Are Wonderful
Save a Baby, Michiganders Vote NO on Proposal 3 on November 8, 2022
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shawnmariespry
Aug 28, 20226 min read
Abundant Life
Last month we celebrated our son’s engagement at a brewery in the Alger Heights neighborhood of Grand Rapids. Under the laughter and my...
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shawnmariespry
Jul 30, 20227 min read
Extreme
Is urgently and unapologetically protecting the most defenseless among us--without exceptions--extreme?
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shawnmariespry
Jun 18, 20229 min read
Exhale
I’ve been on a 27-year expedition that is coming to a close. If raising them was a great inhale, it’s about time for a seismic exhale.
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shawnmariespry
May 8, 20227 min read
Why Mothers Should Protect Their Babies
Minutes after Isabella Marie Spry was born, Scott holds his fourth-born, September 2004 Some babies are adorable. Some, maybe not so...
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shawnmariespry
Mar 26, 20227 min read
Exposed
WARNING: This post contains disturbing graphic content. “Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them....
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shawnmariespry
Feb 13, 20227 min read
Puppy LOVE
We are about to embark on an exciting new adventure. We three are absolutely smitten by this adorable new adventure. His name is Buck.
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shawnmariespry
Jan 2, 20229 min read
Blessed Assurance
It has been a gradual transition, watching our four children launch into adulthood. Nine years ago as our first child prepared to leave...
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shawnmariespry
Nov 21, 202110 min read
Embrace
Life can often be beautiful and rosy. Sometimes dull, lonely or exciting. And sometimes, due to reasons we can control and other times...
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shawnmariespry
Sep 26, 20215 min read
Retrospective
Summer 2021 is now history. It was abundantly good. God is good. I am constantly in awe of his mercy and favor. The following photo essay...
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shawnmariespry
Sep 12, 20214 min read
T'shuva
"But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him."
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shawnmariespry
Aug 22, 20214 min read
Growing Up
Disenchantment really hit me hard when life wasn’t perfect after 8th grade. School isn’t easy, some people aren’t nice, seasonal . . .
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shawnmariespry
Jul 17, 20212 min read
Nostalgia
(Thank you to our dear daughter, Bailey June, for sharing her poetry.) For Jake Red. The color of your little boots, feet on the wrong...
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shawnmariespry
Jul 4, 202116 min read
Following Guiding Lights
Just as lighthouses guide ship and boat captains through rough waters, each of us needs to find guiding lights to help us navigate life.
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