As I write tonight, I am sitting beneath a Strawberry Moon. Blindingly bright, it rises over the low pasture, and up onto the ridge, her beams picking their way through the blueberry rows, bush by bush. I settle into a creaking Adirondack chair – a gift given with memories to keep and memories to create […]
Favorite Children’s Picture Books, List 2
(A continuation of my Favorite Children’s Books series. List 1 can be found here. All images and titles are affiliate links.) * Book 1: All The Places To Love Written by Patricia MacLachlan, Paintings by Mike Wimmer This might be my favorite children’s book, written by the author of Sarah, Plain and Tall. A small […]
Moonlit Rambles
Poetry. I wish that I had poetry in me tonight. The moon swells and with it swells my spirit, but it feels like there are no words. The window at the stair landing looks out over the pasture where the full moon rises – we stop there and gaze in silence, and then I tuck […]
Favorite Children’s Picture Books, List 1
I read one of my favorite children’s books to our littles last night, and was reminded mid-story that I’ve intended nearly forever to put a list on here of picture books we love. My mental list is long, so I think I’ll dole it out in mini posts of 5 titles at a time. I […]
The Incarnation
A republishing of a post from December, 2011, at the request of a friend. Christmas has more sadness woven in the lining now for me than it used to, and I would have written this post differently today than I did 7 Christmases ago. But I’m glad I wrote it then and not now, because […]
Maybe The Answer You’re Praying For Is Already Here.
Sometimes we wait impatiently on God when he is patiently waiting on us, waiting for us to recognize what he’s already given as part of the answer. What little pot of oil have you neglected to notice? What little shred of possibility have you chosen to ignore? What little patch of time have you disparaged? […]
To Be A Mother of Daughters
Braiding her hair in the dark felt like taking up a mantle, here I am, playing the mother. Almost a decade of being a mama to daughters, and in my heart I am sometimes still the girl. I fished out nightgowns for dolls, tucking the freshly clad babies up against a three year old’s shoulders, […]
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