141Jul 20, 2012
High tide, and the waves curl deep, pounding the sand into a cliff at the break line. I sit watching one shore break after another, absorbing powerful beauty, the explosion of white caps, hard and close. I would love these waves if they broke a little further out and I could ride them in fast […]
142Mar 30, 2012
We are not an easy family to love. I mean, even for us the loving isn’t always easy. We are difficult, tired, a ball of chaos with accessories. Everywhere we go, there are tote bags filled with an eccentric conglomeration of things—our accoutrements, I call them: stuffed monkeys and calculators; dry erase markers, insulin pens, […]
143Mar 23, 2012
Today, I will hug each of my children as many times as I serve them meals — because children’s hearts feed on touch. I’ll look for as many opportunities to touch my children today as possible — the taller they are, the more so. ~Ann Voskamp Every day breathing, for me, means learning this: love comes first. I remember […]
144Mar 16, 2012
It’s as though every day is the first time I’ve met God, the first time I’ve loved Him. I wake up and I can’t remember who I am, or that I’m abundantly blessed. Â I feel trapped in the weary, aware of the walls that surround me, boxed in and dull. Â And then He shows me […]
145Jan 6, 2012
Last week, Kevin and I went backpacking on the Appalachian Trail. Â I loved it. Â And I hated it. Â And now, days later, I still want to go back. Identity intrigues me, the way we allow the details of life to shape our perception of possibility; the way I have limited my own view of who […]
146Nov 25, 2011
The last year I shopped Black Friday, Mom and I sat in a parking lot for two and a half hours, gridlocked, trying to leave.  Our bargains, over which we’d shared exhilarated gloating, sat in their bags, looking less impressive as the minutes passed.  All in all, the madness just didn’t seem worth the money we’d saved. […]
147Jul 29, 2011
I’ve been disowned. The letter came while I vacationed on the coast. Â It blew in cold and hard, and the words cut like a knife. Â Others have walked away before, but this is my first rejection by association. Â I’ve never actually been in conflict with this person, never shot them an angry look, never even […]
148Jul 8, 2011
“And a sword will pierce your own soul too.” ~Simeon (man “moved by the Holy Spirit”) to Mary (mother of the Savior of all mankind) the gospel of Luke, chapter 2, verse 35 She could not have known. Â Standing there, with her baby just over a month old, showing up as she was for obedience—Mary […]
149Jun 17, 2011
lav·ish [lav-ish]–adjective 1.expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending. 2.using or giving in great amounts; prodigal How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!~1 John 3:1 I came into this world on Easter Sunday, the same year my dad started his business.  My dad is a Certified Public Accountant, […]
150May 27, 2011
A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.~ Proverbs 25:11 Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. ~Ephesians 4:29 You know, words don’t really come easily to any of us. But in […]