Ready, Set, Homeschool… What I want to remember daily: Grace. Invite those precious minds to the water, wet their appetite, give them sips, but don’t let them drown! And always, always, always, hold out grace open-handed. (I love this…
by Linda Andersen from my book of the same title: “LOVE ADDS THE CHOCOLATE” A house is a house is a house….until love comes through the door, that is. And love intuitively goes around sprinkling that special brand of angel…
Seagulls swooped. Horizon gleamed orange–crashed crimson over snowy whitecaps. Golden beaches sported polka dot people and rainbowed umbrellas. It might have been Italy, or France, or Cancun. But it was simply May in South Haven, MI: our town. The one…
From Henri Nouwen’s Gracias: “More and more, the desire grows in me simply to walk around, greet people, enter their homes, sit on their doorsteps, play ball, throw water, and be known as someone who wants to live with them.…
The Message translation of Colossians 3:3-4 has been convicting/encouraging me lately, especially this phrase: “Be content with obscurity.” We have an upside down world and it is easy to roll topsy turvy along with it. But, it’s Sarah Smith of…
Squeals burst in the front door: my sister, golden hair bouncing, her left hand held out for all to admire the sparkle. She was wearing love. Matt, her new fiancé, tumbled in just behind, radiant. The family had gathered to…
Mark 1:29-42 Andrew and another disciple zigzagged with Jesus through the crowd to his home, perhaps a room at an inn, maybe a space on a rented rooftop able to feel the vibrations of a busy family below. Their…
Mark 1:16-18 Read it. I was born into a world of big dreams (even in ministry) and I have loved them, have written poetry about them, breathed onto them before I shined them and set them up on the…