Her feet swung from the piano bench, until we turned the page. She saw all those black notes, and her legs stopped swinging. That’s too hard! I can’t play it. It’s too hard! You can, I said. (Ignoring her most pathetic sighing and already-defeated slouching.) And we started in. One measure at a time. No, that’s…
The favorite Tazo tea in our cupboard is “calm”. I guess if you steep the teabag long enough it soothes your very soul? I was just reading about John and Charles Wesley who played huge roles in the first American Great Spiritual Awakening. They were traveling from Europe to America when a huge storm came…
Last night I strolled my old college campus with Matt –my hand in his warm, strong one. It had been 13 years since I visited here, and I wasn’t prepared for how I would feel. We stopped at points along the way, remembering. Here is where I broke up with Matt for trying to hold…
We were in the Seattle airport waiting for our plane to Dallas –making some laps around the concourse. I almost lost Matt when we passed the Kona, Hawaii gate and they were calling for a couple to make the final boarding. He said, What –didn’t they just call our name? No, darling. No. Anyway, Caleb and I tried…
I annoyed my little Awana girls. They gathered around me to say their Bible memory verses last night. I always make them explain what the verse means and talk about how we should obey it or believe it. This makes them nuts, because really they just want to say it as fast as they can…
I’m in the basement trying to create a blog post, and my husband is upstairs helping my daughter with her macro-economics homework over the phone. I can’t concentrate! So I give up and lay down on the couch to pray, coming dangerously close to falling asleep, and I end up eavesdropping on their conversation. He’s…
The other day I was in a fetal position on my couch in the basement. From that place in the room I could see the huge wall turned into one big writing bulletin board filled with assignments, my computer waiting for fingers to tap on the keyboard, papers piled on papers on my desk, one…
All I’ve ever wanted is to help people get closer to God. Now, coming up on age 44 my life is much what I hoped it would be. This week I’ll teach four times at church, work with kids on their memory verses, help plan a worship service, write some blog posts… Lots of meaningful…
In the stillness of the early morning, with snow gently falling, I tenderly laid my Bible in front of the advent candles and reached for the matches. Lighting candle one and candle two with great reverence, I prepared to meditate on a verse of Scripture and spend some moments in prayer. After dousing the match…
At 8:00 I arrived at the court house, by invitation of friends who were completing the adoption of two children. The last time I was in that room it was to watch a divorce finalize. Everything broken walks in those doors. How wearisome it must be to put on the robe and sit behind the…
$400 later and she has a stack of books for her first semester of college. As a book nerd I pick up the stack of textbooks and flip through them, resisting the urge to open them up and stick my nose in the binding. New book smell. Why don’t they make that as a car…
It’s 4:27 a.m., and I’m wide awake. Ridiculous. My brain yawns and stretches before I do. It has a cup of coffee –black. Then when it’s wide awake, with all the worries and to-do lists spread out and ready to go, it wakes up my body. So at 4:27 I wake up with a…
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