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Michelle Ruetschle

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Michelle Ruetschle's Blog

For if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Romans 8:25

Dear friends,

What a year we have had! Over the summer, we left our deeply rooted life in the Philippines to begin an entirely new chapter in Portland, Oregon. As I write, a fire is going in the fireplace, and the air outside is chill. An enormous fir tree, freshly cut, towers over our living room, and as I l Read more of this blog post »

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Forty: The Year My Husband Became a Quadriplegic

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Stone Yard Devotional

by Charlotte Wood (Goodreads Author)

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Good Poems: American Places

by Garrison Keillor

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Let It Go: The Memoirs of Dame Stephanie Shirley

by Stephanie Shirley

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Michelle wants to read The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Michelle’s Quotes

“Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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