One of the greatest joys in my life is to pull books off my bookshelf, share music, print off a chocolate brownie recipe to share. If it was melt in the mouth good, than why keep quiet? Want a view of my week’s favorite things?…
A 5 minute writing dare…just words on a timer. no editing. Yup, it’s what we writer nerds do for fun! ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… GO – word: Wonder My three year old blondie began hoisting his chubby little legs over the side of…
“I know who you are,” I whisper to my blond curly headed sister and squeeze her shoulders tight. Her eyes water and I pray the words bounce around the cavern of her body and stick deep into her heart. She’s…
I’m surprised at how they jump in, at how they eagerly pick up scissors and sticks and build a memory together. Six cousins in one house waiting for Mama/Aunt Heather to come home with the new baby. They pick up…
The Feast Day 12: Can I please jump back into this 31 day exploration of learning to stay present? (a feast of the present moment) Thank you, thank you for your grace! As I write this, I’m about to be…
Today I’m joining Lisa-Jo Baker and her writing throwdown, Five Minute Friday Stay present. Tomorrow morning I will wrestle the laundry into the washer, loads of sheets all covered with their sickness and tomorrow I will need to stay parked…to…
(From Sunday’s sermon) Today, I’m preaching to myself and I need you to hear that. I’m preaching at the point of my present struggle. And for some reason God keeps asking this of me! My writing and my preaching is…
Have you ever had a schedule change that seemed to pull the rug right out from under you? But this time, instead of falling on my back, gasping for air, the schedule change forced me to see my priorities with…
These last three days, I have been listening to their stories down the four steps from the sidewalk into our Prayer Clinic. Beautiful stories of the treachery of growing up on planet earth. It has been a privilege…
Andrew Peterson writes his songs as great examples of that wisdom from Dr. Brown, my creative writing professor at college: Show, Summer, don’t tell. He writes like a poet, a poet from deep inside the midst of us ordinary people. And…