Dinner took a long time to make yesterday…. this by design. Following a month plus of fullness, December has been a practice of slowing down, especially in the everyday. Spotting an open afternoon, I filled time with chopping, stirring …thinking. Children cooperated with nap time or quiet time and this Mama ‘rested’ in the quiet...
{source} The forty while 40 list is simply a reflection of me… simply me. In these long short years of living, especially the most recent months, I’m learning the value of accepting just how I’m wired, just how He has shaped me. It’s never an excuse to not grow, to quit learning, to justify...
{source} Tomorrow is my 40th birthday. I’ve endured lots of good-natured teasing from friends and family, and have offered a few side comments myself. I guess it’s expected in our culture…though I’m not sure when ‘over the hill’ actually is according to party stores. Forty? Fifty? Definitely sixty? No one seems to really know. All...
{reflections today after attending The Relevant Conference last weekend} When you’ve been incredibly, abundantly BLESSED… you need grace. We often think of this need in times of trouble, of lack. And yes, desperate grace is sought in the dark. Yet, even in the light — when all shines glory and beauty and lovely, …we...
“Find those who believe. Who have faith in you and in the God who births ideas, whispers fresh thoughts, and impresses our minds with ways to expand His kingdom.” I encouraged you with those words recently, boldly impressing on you the need for community, a circle of sisterhood or brotherhood to support, speak life,...
How many times do I wish I had simply answered ‘no’? Or at least ‘not now’…giving breadth and room for an intentional, and not simply an emotional response? To pause and listen, to wait on counsel, to ask of Him. How many times have you? We humans have this strange and often unexplainable capacity to...
