Marriage
Right as I sit down to write it starts raining. I baked, cleaned, laundered, dished, mommed all day. All I wanted was to tap keys on a dry deck. But…
See, Hear, Understand 2020
How is it that the believers are supposed to believe at a time like this? How are the ones who call Christ their Creator to think about love, and ponder…
One Weekend Word
I've got one sound word for your one wondrous weekend, kids: Be still and know. It's from Psalm 46 and when I saw it on a t-shirt today in a…
3 Things Conjuring Up Hope
Hope can be hard for me. It can be hard for deep feelers, wide-eyed seers, and those in the dark looking for a glimmer but can't seem to find one.…
Where Jesus Sits
Out of my side eye I watched his chest and shoulders heave up and down in happy laughter, as we listened to a comedian crack truths about life. Because really,…
A Special Saturday
I've heard it said that the Saturday after Good Friday and before Easter Sunday, is in the ellipsis. In the (...) if you will. A story has been started, and…
The Remembering
A few weeks back, standing in the kitchen after an unravel, the youngest walked up from behind me without my knowing it. Sensing my overwhelm, in his best kindergarten lisp…
A Day
I'm surrounded by bookshelves, and my phone's streaming Mumford and Sons, and the sun is shining, and I've been lost in my own head and heart for the last few…
There was Still Life to be Had
"Mama, I really don't think it's all the way dead yet." That's what my oldest proclaimed when I told him to take the dried up plants from the back porch…
Her
When I stepped out of bed at dawn that day my body told me I had lost something. My feet hit the floor. My faith rocked. I cried out. And…