Some time ago, I asked God to teach me to love. It’s interesting to me, after all these years, that the first passages of scripture my mom took me to, teaching me to allow the Spirit to write the Word on my heart, were passages about love.  Sitting on her bed after the light had […]

This morning, I’ve been baking, and the house smells like rich chocolate.  Chocolate Curious George cake, to be exact. Adam will be 9 years old tomorrow, and the cake was a request.  I shared this with some of my sisters a few nights ago, asking them to thank God along with me for the gift […]

This afternoon, when I picked the kids up from school, Zoe ran over to the van.  Weeping. I opened the door and pulled her into my lap, and the words came tumbling out with her tears. “Mom, Emily said she hated me.  And then, when we were leaving school, and I was telling Roxanna what […]

Ah, it feels so good to be back here. All week I’ve been itching to write, but it’s not just the wordsmithing that I love (and I LOVE the wordsmithing), it’s the knowledge that some of you out there really hear me.  And I need to tell you something:  I’m not the only one in […]

When I was a girl, my parents drove the precursor to my own swagger van: the gargantuan station wagon. The first station wagon Dad and Mom owned was white, and they drove it until a drunk driver plowed into the side of it as we were traveling through an intersection, spinning it around and shattering […]

Zoe is a prayer warrior.  And frankly, she absolutely schools the rest of us. For about three years, the motor on the power door in our van was burned out.  When the girls were younger, they thought it fun to engage the door and then watch it jerk back in the other direction when they […]

Sometimes the ironies of my life amuse me. Every day after school, before I’ll let Adam get in the van, he has to have a short conversation with me–an appropriate greeting and the answer to at least one question.  Adam is usually anxious to get in, having left his favorite treasures—George, his calculator, his mp3 […]

Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, […]

Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. ~Galatians 6:9 Sometimes I feel so weary.  These are the days when I feel the truth of my inadequacy, and also the best days for acknowledging the reality of God’s tremendous […]

Zoe and two of her best friends have started their own book club. Saturday afternoon, the Bookmarks held their first meeting to discuss Barbara Robinson’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Having dreamed up this brilliant idea, my friends and I orchestrated things so that for Christmas gifts this year, the girls gave each other a […]