Learn from Her
There's a mama behind every man.Just like there's a womb behind every woman. It's true for all of us.But...... the contrast is vast. The childhood experience can look so different…
Home
Being here in the home has been a heart changer.Working (and I do mean working) within these walls....with these littles hot on my heels all the live long day -…
Art
I sat on the sidewalk yesterday......... and watched my oldest blonde sketch beauty next to a bayou.He captured cotton ball clouds floating overhead, and cattails standing sturdy in murky water.…
Joy in the Ordinary
The things I usually loathe - are the things I'd love to be doing this weekend.Oh, friends.I woke up in the wee hours of the morning on Thursday - trying…
Noon Day Sun
He's reading a chapter a day.He's filling his being, his moments, his life....with rich, time-tested, insightful quips.Proverbs.That wise old compilation sandwiched between Psalms and Ecclesiastes. Placed right there in the…
The Mind
I've been reading through Romans.Limping through it, really....if I'm being honest.It's a brilliant book. (Which is perhaps why I am stumbling through it.)With all its mentioning of salvation, faith, righteousness.I'm…
Breath
Some days all we have is a moment....a second, even....to reach out for Him.Certain hours....are so brim full that we scarcely have an instant to pause.Much less, pray.Yet....it's in the…
Slow
Sometimes you have to let things sit before they sink in.Sometimes....you have to let ideas simmer - before they come to full flavor.And more times than not - it's the…
Digging In
The load of laundry in the dryer is on its fourth 'fluff'.The school papers from last year are fluttering about the school room as I turn on the ceiling fan.…
Watch
He was just sitting there on the ottoman....one foot tucked under his little eighteen month old diapered bottom, the other foot dangling....eating a bowl of freshly diced strawberries.And I sat…