For the first Monday since September, I woke up this morning with nothing to do. Well, ok. Not nothing, but a different kind of nothing than I’ve experienced in months.Last week, my Tuesday morning Bible study gals and I finally closed the book on our Names of God study. I’m both elated and depressed that it’s over. It was a challenge for me to… Read More
A Motto {for the godless}
It’s a one-liner from a movie that I can’t get out of my head.(This is what happens when I watch movies, people. Even the animated ones. Lines become blog posts in my head. This one I’ve been thinking about since I first saw this with the kids months ago.) In the movie, The Croods, the ultra-paranoid cave-dad lives with this motto: “Never not be… Read More
The sacred work of {Thanks}giving
The truth of the words hit me as I wrote them down.Truth based on this verse: Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. Psalm 100:4 Thanksgiving ushers us into the presence of God.So gratitude, this act of naming blessings, somehow props wide open the door to heaven. To heaven come down. To… Read More
Falling down
As soon as we walked in the door from school, she thrust her papers at me. “Here” were the only words that came out, but I could see in her eyes there was more. This child, my middle Miss, bears the resemblance of her mother in more ways than I can count. It was a quiz, and she didn’t pass. Her eyes… Read More
Not Forsaken
Somedays we need to be reminded of simple truth … I’m praying that this one seeps into every corner and crevice of your heart and mind today. “The LORD is the one who goes ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.” Deuteronomy 31:8 … Read More
On Being Brave
“Do it!” I yelled to my blondie, little Miss, the one who bears the resemblance of her mother in more ways than one. “You can do this!” Monkey bars are normally no match for my rough and tumble daughter, but this park and these rings are different. “Come on!” I said, “What’s the worst thing that could happen?” {I’m laughing, as I… Read More
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