On Love Stories
Could also be titled: My Thoughts for all the Juliets These thoughts have been brewing in my head for months…even years. I keep thinking that I'm just thinking way too hard and it'll pass, but...
View ArticleLiving the Dream
Friday night I sat on the bench of an aluminum picnic table, watching my husband warm up for his softball game. Softball season is always one of the highlights of our summer. The two older girls...
View ArticleCelebrating Our 12th Year
The beauty of getting married in a millennium year is that it's just always so simple to remember how long you've been married! I wanted to do something this year. Something different. I was in a...
View ArticleOn Evil
If God is almighty, there can be no evil so great as to be beyond His power to transform. That transforming power brings light out of darkness, joy out of sorrow, gain out of loss, life out of death....
View ArticleSummer Rain
My oldest girl has been asking since the middle of June: "When will the monsoons come?". Her eager anticipation has made the waiting feel even longer. Our last precipitation was back in March. The...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: Here
I remember vividly lying on the couch. Surrounded by mess everywhere I looked. Watching my four year old and two year old girls play across the room as I willed myself to hold down just five bites...
View ArticleThis & That
The view outside my window. My brain is so muddled with the dozen or more posts I've thought but haven't written, that bullet points feel necessary. Just to break the silence. We are three weeks...
View ArticleAnother Year
Last year I shared my story of reaching the long awaited and painfully slowly anticipated milestone of thirty. I was so excited. Well, a few busy days and a couple of weekends later, and all of the...
View ArticleMore on Change
Last week's unloading of the overload of change that has permeated my life this summer was a much needed relief. To be honest, I feel very strongly about my writing in this space being uplifting. I...
View ArticleReflections On Camping
Last night we retreated into the local forest with our church friends. Friends that have become more like family in many ways. I was not feeling prepared because I had not had the time to make a...
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