I’m joining the fabulous Emily Freeman in sharing 10 things I learned this August weaving back and forth from silly to serious. This is the summer vacation edition. 1. First, I need to just keep pushing the publish button. Keep putting words on paper.…
I’ve been silent a good while. Listening. Wrestling. Homeschooling. I’ve taken that leap again…she who said she would never…ever homeschool…again. But after our move to GA Madeline was drowning with math that didn’t make sense and a month into our semester…
We often live anxiously searching for our needs to be filled. Moving intensifies that. I wrote this post last year. It still applies. Today’s action? Lift up your needs to the Father using the prayer printed at the end. Don’t be afraid…
Crabapple trees in pink frills process down my new street. All winter I wondered what color they would wear. Their miniature crabapples fell onto the sidewalks and gave the early robins something to eat in the cold. Still, they kept their secret.…
You are allowed to rest. This is permission. Invitation. It had been a busy day, full of teetering stacks of laundry and ministry and the kind of slow exhaustion that makes one desperate for another cup of coffee…at 8…just to make it…
Welcome to Word-seeds dear friend. This is where we pray the Scripture roots into every crevice and crack of our life, breaks up the hard ground. Word seed is a Bible study that may take longer than a day. We wind…
It all started when I brought Psalm 139 to bed with a hot steaming mug of chamomile tea, mulling it over in my mouth, breathing in its earthy fragrance and then licking the honey resting at the bottom. I stopped…
Tonight it was the chocolate sheet cake, the one with the thick fudgy frosting Andrew’s mom taught me step by step. It’s THE “birthday cake” around here because no one can imagine desiring anything but a large rectangle of this…
I hear a call in the quiet of the early morning: “Deepen,” He whispers. God is using the specific vocabulary of a Madeleine L’Engle lover. I was shaken Saturday. Triggered, that is. They were dressed straight off the cover of a JCrew catalog and I shrunk…
(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…