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February 4, 2017 by Shelly 2 Comments

Hitting the (Glass) Wall

Last summer our kids took us to go through the glass labyrinth located in the front yard area of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.

A labyrinth, as you probably know, is a maze, an irregular set of passageways that make it hard to find your way through from the beginning to the end. The walls of the passageways can be made out of all kinds of materials- hedge bushes, corn stalks, hay bales, mirrors or in this case, glass, making the walls see through.

It was fun to stand and watch for awhile. The adults had their guard up, but kids went in quickly and would run pell-mell into the glass walls. They would stop, confused, feel with their hands, turn, and then move forward quickly again till they hit another wall, and then another.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Calvin, hitting the glass wall, purpose, trust, unknown

May 30, 2016 by Shelly 2 Comments

A Personal Parable

Shellycarlson.com | Blog: A Personal Parable

So, animal lovers, hold onto your hats, this is a strange one.  All turns out well in the end though, I promise, so don’t stop reading.

I was driving to work after picking up some groceries for a Food Science lab that would take place later that day at school. Weaving through the back streets of town I spied a pick up truck with three large dogs in the back bed ahead of me. Was one of them a St. Bernard? With some agile driving (I wasn’t speeding) I caught up to them and just as I craned my neck to see that third dog, which was indeed a St. Bernard, it jumped from the truck bed- dangling by it’s collar that was attached to the truck by a leash!

I know that is a terrible picture, but I promised you it would turn out ok and there is a purpose for telling you about it, so hang in there (no pun intended)!  [Read more…]

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