Some days, you just need the reminder. Some days, when you feel weary from straining to see ahead, you need to be reminded: you can stop straining; you can simply look right where your feet are planted and trust, God is leading you somewhere good. The Lord, He will fulfill His plan for your life.
I remember so clearly the afternoon my Firecracker Girl came down from her afternoon nap when she was not yet 3. She had a crazy halo of bedhead, hair in her eyes and sticking out at every angle. “Let’s brush that hair of yours.” It was my first instinct to say to her when seeing… Read More “I Like it Wild!”: Learning to Appreciate the Unique Masterpiece that are Each of My Children
Often it is in the ordinary, the everyday, the simply things, that the glorious in life is revealed. We simply need pause long enough to notice it the Glorious Ordinary. Flowers catching the sunlight at breakfast… bread and cup and food for our souls… purple dresses and dear friends… kids happily playing… an encouragement to… Read More The Glorious Ordinary
As I sat with my spiritual director, I began to unpack the ways I was noticing God recently, and as I did, it finally occurred to me, and I actually think I blurted out to her, “The shift, I feel like the shift has finally happened!” You see, for 10 years now I feel I… Read More Unfolding: The Shift to Wondering at the Unexpected God is Doing
“Two brothers worked a common field and a common mill. Each night they divided whatever grain they had produced and took their own portion home. One brother was single, and the other was married with a large family. The single brother decided that his married brother, with all those kids, certainly needed more grain than… Read More Cheers to the Best Mom Ever
It’s been a topic of conversation since Holy Week and Easter. Sweet Boy, he’s trying hard to figure out this Jesus dying thing. And when you try to explain it to a four year old you realize how confusing it can be. The week of Holy Week, we moved around the room as I walk… Read More A Pokey Crown, a Cross and Jesus on a Golden Motorcycle: Teaching Our Faith to Our Children
“Breakfast is Ready!” I find myself saying this day in and day out. It was no different this Monday, the day after Easter. A three week Spring Break for the kids was finally over (yep, you heard that right, three weeks!), and we were all back to the daily grind. I scrambled eggs for the… Read More “Breakfast is Ready”: The Resurrected Jesus in the Everyday
He came running to the door with his hand held out, “Mommy, Mommy, look what I have for you! Flowers! They are for you Mommy!” I looked at the golden offering in his tiny hand. Dandelion heads. They didn’t even have the stems. He didn’t know he had just picked me a bunch of weeds.… Read More Precious Offering: Some Thoughts on a Handful of Dandelions and Romans 12:1
I spent the day yesterday deep cleaning. There is something about the warmer weather and the birds chirping that makes you… or at least makes me… want to throw open the doors and windows and air things out. I can see why we call it Spring Cleaning… there is something in the Spring air that… Read More The Deep Clean of Lent: An Invitation to Attend to Our Souls
We all have them…those scared-to-get-out-of-the-boat places… those places we feel boxed in by fear… those places in our lives we look at and think, “I don’t see how I can overcome this.” I’ve been thinking about those impossible places in my life, those places where I don’t see how things will ever change, those places I… Read More In the Mood for Impossible Things