I’ve been thinking about mindfulness these days. Every time I pull behind a familiar 4Runner, I giggle over these words on a bumper sticker: “Midwives Help People Out” and then I consider soberly these words on a second decal: “Embrace Mindfulness.” Embrace Mindfulness. A few months ago our three year began telling stories. In an […]
The Point Of It All Is To Know The Lord
There seems to be a misconception that somehow the story is about us. “For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as waters cover the sea.” Isaiah 11:9 “I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.” Exodus 6:7 […]
Be My Yes and Amen
This is one of those days where I feel as if I cannot go on. It’s all so heavy, the burden so heavy. “Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” I am weary and heavy laden, Lord. I feel as if I cannot go on. The […]
Himself a Lover of the Beautiful
I have been dusting off the covers of old religious books, many of which are underlined and marked by the pen of my husband’s great-grandfather. Education, a small volume by Ellen White, has proved to be a good companion to the reading I have been doing already in Charlotte Mason’s Ourselves. I’ve been surprised by how well they […]
There Is Grace
He wanted an ice cream cake for his birthday: white cake, with the ice cream strawberry. I whipped eggs for 30 minutes in an attempt to get those peaks, but only managed a firm sort of foam. He snuggled close. All seven years of boy pressed into my arm as I folded the batter between […]
On Dreaming Those God-Sized Dreams
“God-sized dreams.” The words had been popping into blog posts all over the internet before I tracked them back to Holley. And I should have known it would be her, because Holley Gerth writes the type of words that give permission to fully live. Holley writes about God-sized dreams almost as if the dreams are […]
Do This In Remembrance of Me
We break bread and the youngest daughter, she’s scared of the cup. Her Papa holds it to her but she cries, and when her eyes clench, I think, isn’t that just how we all ought to feel? It’s as dark as the tomb in that belly of a challis, cold and completely unknown. And to […]
We Have Done Church
We’ve done the no church thing. The home church thing. The mega church thing. The tiny church thing. We’ve done the Catholic thing. The Pentecostal thing. The Presbyterian thing. The Lutheran thing. The Nazarene thing. The Baptist thing. The Non-Denom. thing. The Family Integrated thing. We’ve done the Adventist thing. We’ve done church. We’ve done the […]
This Is a Hard Teaching, Who Can Accept It?
It isn’t always noon when I get dressed, but today it is. When I’m on top of my game, I’m dressed before I make breakfast, or even better, before I leave our room. But today any clothes I might wear are buried beneath twelve loads of washed and unwashed laundry, on the other side and […]
Down Range
He who dwells in the Shelter of the Most High shall abide in the Shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1 When the word comes that this husband of mine will be needed Down Range, I take another bite. Sip another drink. Wipe another face. Rinse another dish. And I think, this is how I’ll do […]