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June 19, 2024

Sabotaging My Own Prayers

I have made a startling discovery! I am seeing how often I stand in the way of answers to my own prayers. I do this...

November 29, 2023

Meandering Thoughts on a Child Leaving Home

The sun shining on this uncharacteristically warm fall almost winter day, I walked kicking the last of spring and...

April 26, 2023

Good Worry?

Waking up yesterday, I immediately felt the weight of some things I am carrying infiltrate my mind. It didn't take long...

April 13, 2023

Loving When You Can't

A few weeks ago, I shared at a small retreat. As I was working on the message, the truths God showed me in the process...

February 28, 2023

20 Things I've Learned Parenting Teens

We are now nine years into what will be our fourteen year teen parenting journey and I have learned so much! Mainly how...

February 21, 2020

Mamas, Keep on Keeping On

Standing with fellow Sunday School kids adorned in ’80’s culottes, I recited The Lord’s Prayer with the gusto only...

January 5, 2018

Remembered

Sitting in church last week, still shaking from the record cold temperatures outside, snow melting in small, dirty...

May 4, 2017

Love Undeserved

One of my favorite things in our home is a gift John recently gave me. It’s not particularly sentimental, but it...

February 26, 2017

Embracing the Present with the Future in Mind

Today finds me drinking my over important coffee in my favorite chair, feeling a dull ache as I think about the...

February 7, 2017

The Days are Long and the Years are Short/Things I Have Learned Along the Way

Next month we will have a driver. I can’t even believe that I just typed that. If someone said that Josiah would be...