Stayed. Abide. Hope. Three words among many that have been integral in my walk with the Lord. Leaders in changing the inner dispositions I hold to sanctify me, make me more Christlike. I have found another word that makes my mind spin in the best of ways and makes my heart overflow with love for the God who placed it there to begin with. But before I tell you the word, let me tell you how it came to be.

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There is an order to learning. A step by step of understanding one thing so that it can prepare you to naturally flow into another. When learning to read you start first with the letters. Once you understand what letters are, you begin to learn their names, and then their sounds, and then that those letters and sounds make up words. Next you would begin to learn word families, those groups of words that share sounds. Sight words then begin to get introduced and after you start to throw in different. more complicated blends and digraphs and so on and so forth. The point is you don´t begin reading by starting with the complicated exceptions to the English language. You start small and simply and then build on.

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Having grown up in the South, it is quite difficult for me to hold a conversation or write without having a colloquialism or two, or fifteen, pop up in my head and try to make it's way out through my fingertips. Even though I was raised by a Yankee mama and a southern but-not-typical-southern father, those language and accent roots run deep!

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