Life On Vacation
"As soon as I stepped foot on the beach, I could feel the stress melt away." My freshly tanned friend looks like she's just returned from vacation. Her golden skin gives it away, but there's something else too. The tension in her face and body is gone, and her eyes...
Thirty Days of Thanks: Day 16 – A Place Called Grace
There's a place I really love. I have only been there a few times in my life, but I'll never forget how much peace I found when I visited. It was a place of rest and joy and surrender. And even though I didn't live there, it felt like home. Like where I belonged. I...
Thirty Days of Thanks: Day 14 – In Everything?
The last week was overwhelming. Not just in the normal sense of busyness, but also sadness. Some of life's harshest strokes hit many people that I love. The death of my friend, Aida, a wife and mom to five young children. My friend's ongoing battle for her baby's...
Thirty Days of Thanks: Day 15 & 16 – Irresponsible?
I have six kids. Four are still at home, and we homeschool them. Three of them are teenagers and require all the time and emotional energy this season demands. With just the responsibilities inside these four walls, I hardly have time to keep us in clean underwear and...
Thirty Days of Thanks: Day 14 – Just Thanks
God, thank you for . . 1. red barns 2. the smell of woodsmoke 3. the way You reach for me 4. my $12 vintage buffalo plaid Woolrich jacket, favorite mug, and a cold morning 5. the morning sky 6. Sam's (our resident ten year old Origami/Scherenschnitte master)...
Thirty Days of Thanks: Day(s) 10-13: Confession
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 I have a confession to make. On most of these...
Thirty Days of Thanks: Day 9 – Leaving
The sun shone through my bathroom window in a different way the other morning. After three days of wind and rain, even seeing the sun was new, but there was something else. I pulled back the curtain and saw. The whole mountain range. We live on the west side of the...
