I was awake at 1:45 a.m., barely three hours into my night of sleep. Thinking. I wonder if that Spanish website will work. I’ll be back to square one if it doesn’t. Need to get the truck oil changed in Whitefish, but that will take two hours –can I afford two hours today? Should I…
I know it’s the middle of August, but when I came across these pictures and saw the attention God pays to the details of design, I wondered why I ever get stressed that God might not work out the details of my life. I mean really.
My friend and I agree that we like a nice, clean swimming pool where we can see the bottom. No ocean for us –too deep and too many unknowns. But will I live that philosophy in following Christ? No way. Give me a vast sea and all the risk that goes with it. What’s your…
I had a hard day. Matt called me when I was driving home, and I blubbered all of it to him. Apologized. Hung up. Then I got home and cried some more. Pulled it together to go get pizza and enjoy it with the family, until the layered stressors of the day crawled up my…
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 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….
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…
Most of my conversations start out with these words from my mouth: I’m reading the best book! Since I call you friends, you will have to endure the same… I am reading the best book, Anything, by Jennie Allen. Only a few chapters in, I’ve already highlighted sentences on almost every page. She says she asked…
One of my favorite summer activities is to take my Bible out back to a lawn chair on a Sunday morning. It’s an unrushed hour I can spend with the Lord in the sunshine. For some reason, in the summer it seems okay to indulge in fresh air, sunshine, and time to relax. I encourage you this summer to…
My daughter brought home a tomato plant from the nursery where she works, and I thought it would be a great idea to go plant it at her grandma’s house while she’s out of town. Hopefully there will be ripe tomatoes greeting her when she returns from Arizona. We found a pot at my mother-in-law’s,…
The phone range by my bedside at 5:30 yesterday morning –my husband calling from Tucson, Arizona. He informed me his uncle had passed away in the night. I hung up the phone, and grief pushed the air out of my lungs. It was only six months ago that my preacher husband said the memorial words…
I have been reading the Bible through and am nearing the end of the chronicles of the kings. I have whiplash. Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord. Jehoram did evil in the eyes of the Lord. Ahaziah did evil in the eyes of the Lord. Joash did what…
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