Faith and Doubt
Faith and Parenting
Today Gather Inspirit is hosting a linky for your posts on faith and parenting. If you’ve written anything about how parenting has deepened your faith, or how your faith has influenced or enlightened your parenting, please visit and link up. If you’d like to soak up the insight of some other mothers who follow Jesus,…
Read MoreOf Simmering, Resting, and Labels
(This is the fifth part in a series. Click the links to read the rest of the series: One – Going Back to the Beginning, Two – Stuck Between Two Horses, Three – The Wrong God, Four – Stepping Stones and a Crossroads, Six – He Is Not a Tame Lion, and Seven – Letters…
Read MoreGladness for Mourning
The ladies over at Gather Inspirit asked me to share a little about why and what I blog, my “blogimony” if you will (I have to chuckle at this word – makes me think of matrimony instead of testimony!). I’d be honored if you’d click over and read it. Meanwhile, I’d appreciate prayers and well-wishes…
Read MoreA Diaper Full of Flowers, and Other Graces
Most days this spring, at least one of my children races into the house, clutching a warm squished fistful of blooms from the yard: already brown, wilted dandelions stubs of orange and surprisingly fragrant pansies the first petal from a rose bush balls of flowers the size of oranges The first few (or several)…
Read MoreGod’s Paintbrush
Spring’s new life explodesFree of winter’s cold shacklesReckless abandon-Haiku by Joy Spring colors glow. Ever notice that?The greens are brighter, the pinks more radiant, the blues deeper, the reds bolder. I marvel at God’s paintbrush.
Read MoreJoy
Joy is my middle name. No, I mean it. I go by my middle name. Most people who meet me say it fits perfectly. I say that’s debatable. Except that maybe, just maybe, it’s easier to find and revel in everyday joy when you’ve languished in grief, loss, fear, and long long labor with little…
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