My daughter is a very calm, quiet, rational person, unless there is a spider in her room. Knowing this, I cringed to hear about the duty she pulled at work. She is employed by a large greenhouse, and one day they all took turns going into one of the sections of the store, pulling items away from…
If the place God is taking you is scary, and you have that out-of-control feeling…
I’ll be frosting four dozen chocolate cupcakes for a friend’s wedding today. So when I came across this photographer’s website my heart was stirred. The photographer describes why she likes to show up early to weddings and capture pictures “before it all begins”. You have to see these beautiful pictures. Paul tells the believers in Corinth,…
I feel like I’ve moaned and groaned all week, with external aches accompanying the flu and internal anxiety in trying to make some decisions about the fall. Yesterday I had a moment of energy after the DayQuil kicked in, so I got up to tidy the bedroom, praying through my anxieties as I picked up…
I only have one short thought for you that comes from lying on the couch with a low-grade fever for three days. Thank God for 98.6. (How great is this picture for playing on your sympathy!) I once heard a professor argue for the existence of a Creator, and he urged us to consider the tight specifications by…
The temperature was 90 degrees outside, but I spent all day under a blanket, with chills and body aches. Worse than a summer flu, though, was summer anxiety. I found myself feverish of body and mind, worrying about what this next year will look like. I prayed about this all day, so wishing God would show up…
Both kids were gone yesterday afternoon, so Matt and I found shade in the backyard and sat down in our plastic green Adirondack chairs. Besides watching our black lab (Tell Sackett –named after a Louis L’Amour character) chase flies, we had a nice hour to talk about life and listen to the humming birds. We…
Mornin’! I have made a commitment to pause on the 21st of every month and pray for the A21 Campaign. I enjoy a wealth of freedom and want to see others enjoy freedom as well. Will you take a minute to pray for someone to be freed from slavery today? And maybe write a note…
I was gone this past Monday, and I guess my husband stepped in to make my daughter’s lunch for work, just ‘cause. He cut her an apple, but he informed her he was going to use the “daddy cut”, which means slicing the apple in half and then cutting a wedge to remove the core….
I do this thing where I choose books with stories that make me so miserably uncomfortable that I have to put them down and walk away for a little bit. One time I read a book (Tortured for Christ, by Richard Wurmbrand) that was so disturbing my husband forbid me to finish it when he…
Disgusted –that’s what I am as I write this at 9:53 p.m. Disgusted with myself for not exercising. For not doing the yard work I need to do. For not planning meals. For not making meals. (Unless microwavable pot roast by Tyson counts.) “Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who…
It stands above the roofline, the aspen on the north of the house, and it is special because we took it as a sapling from my husband’s childhood home when it was sold. But this spring the leaves came out smaller than those of the adjacent aspen, and now they are brown and dry. The…
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