Hello friends! We have a movie and a giveaway to chat about for a few minutes today! Angel Studios, who brought us THE CHOSEN, is releasing anew film, HIS ONLY SON, a film about Abraham andIsaac. Short Synopsis: After being called on by the Lord, Abraham’s faith is tested on histhree-day journey to sacrifice his […]
Play is the Glitter of Life
“To play is to live in grace.” Marilyn McEntyre writes these words in the tenth chapter of her book Caring For Words in a Culture of Lies. A tenth chapter aptly titled ‘Play’. Before I read this line, I’ve uncapped my orange highlighter and with broad strokes colored every letter and punctuation mark in this prior […]
The Spiral Bible New Testament
{affiliate links in this post. Thank you!} It’s the first day of spring! The wind HOOOOWLS outside my windows.My good farmer man battles the dust and blowing dirt this wind kicks up. He sends me pictures of the curved lines furrowed in the dirt from tractor and ripper. Continued blowing dirt will ruin our wheat […]
In Need of Rescue
I navigate my shopping cart to a halt beside the tortilla chips. Today I’m choosy and I specifically search for On The Border brand. The Fiesta Dippin’ chips style is in easy grasp.I snag two bags, tumbling them among other assorted groceries in my cart. I’d really prefer to have the Cafe style as well. They hover two shelves above my head and are […]
February Kaleidoscope
A Prayer For Us Jesus,may your spirit find us,fill us,on this February morning,softly,with intensity and warmth,giving grace,bringing beauty for brokenness,offering respite and restoration,showing us shalom in the showing up,reminding us how deeply we are loved,how fantastically we are delighted in,how infinite is your shepherding staff,caring and seeking and saving,curving waves of refreshing,carving humility and dignity […]
The King Always Returns
In these days of shadow and light, evening dusk, sunshine bright, in these days where glad tidings collide with messiness and brokenness inside, in these days of reflection and deflection, noticing the intersection of past, present, and future pondered, in these days of gazing at gathering dust along the top tier of the Roman shade, […]
The Difficulty of Christianity
The ever and always paradox of a Christian. The tug and pull of formation. The desire to divert to least resistance. The difficulty we create for our very own selves. The challenge presented: pry our grasping fingers from this flesh we clutch, the control we crave, the constant desire of distraction. Stillness equates with lack […]
January Kaleidoscope
One full month of 2023 has ticked away. I love this idea of living as an observer of beauty. Paying attention to details. Noticing shapes and nuances. Giving gratitude for aesthetics and texture.Our lives are stories.Our stories are a constantly changing pattern made up of a mixture of excitement and pain, new and old, adjustments […]
Because Love Works That Way
We wend our way through the show room.Keys shine, ivory gloss and polished ebony.They urge fingertips to sweep across them. The ambience of the room casts a spell, makes believe that all one would need to do is begin to play with a flourish and concert pianist music would flow forth. But I know better. […]
Light Always Pierces Darkness
Palpitating. Pounding. Penetrating.Creeping. Crawling. Corrupting.Foreboding.Disturbed. Dismayed. Discombobulated.Anxious. Agitated. Apprehensive.Troubled. Snaking around and under and through.Shrouding everything it encounters.Sinister limbs lurch and reach.Fear pounds in brave chestsAnd courage claws surfaceward.Breath breaks in scant bursts. It wears oppressive doom as an accessory.A snarl, menace, sneer as make-up.Shadows as eyeshadow to overshadow.Spines tremble. We cringe. Hearts falter.Souls shudder and […]
The Text Bible
Twelve days into 2023. I’m in a mess of organizing, re-organizing, decluttering, and hauling a few piles to Goodwill. It’s good to do. I even sorted out some books to go find new homes. 🙂 I’m always reluctant to let books go, but the need for space demands a sorting! It makes me happy to […]
My Favorite Delightful Books Read in 2022
Another year of reading is almost to the finish line.And then we get to begin again!Reading forever! 🙂I’m quite convinced my TBR and TBRR {to-be-re-read} stacks and lists are going to long outlive me. On the one hand this is so sad, on the other it’s so good to know I have so many books […]
Bits and Pieces to Delight In {December}
Friends in the Fog Sometimes the fog in the wilderness obscurs the beauty still abounding around us. At first glance a wilderness looks bleak. Feels forsaken. Even a deeper look brings confusion and lack of direction. Barrenness has a way of disorienting. Broken places pierce. Brambles, sharp with thorns, menacingly snarl.Our feet catch, knees buckle, […]
We Are Messengers
Our in-the-flesh experience begins suddenly. The world opens to us bright and cold and startling. We wail and blink, stunned by the suddenness, the shifting from warmth and comfort of a watery womb to an overstimulating awareness and newness. Lungs gasp air and breath pumps in, out, in, out. Legs and arms thrash and pump […]
Breathing Life
What breathes life into you? What offers an exhale of refreshing? Who do you breathe easier around? Here’s one of mine: Spring of 2022 brought the formation of a Book Club Society into my life. It’s been one of my very favorite parts of this year. Life-giving + breathing joy in + delight = a […]
Casting Your Character
“It’s ready!” the sweet barista sets the mug in front of me. Whip settles on the foam and caramel drizzle runs ribbons disappearing into the cinnamon latte depths. I express my gratitude, smile, reach toward the warm mug. I’m ready too. I lean in, toward the latte, toward conversation. Flickers from the gas fireplace combine with Christmas […]
The Three-Fold Gift of Waiting
The calendar days do have to creep. Agonizingly.They tick along as if they have all day, meandering, ambling, lethargic at best.I press my nose against windowglass, focus on the snowflakes falling in flutters. This was the part of anticipation I didn’t appreciate. It meant awaiting, abiding, attending.As a child, the culmination of Christmas couldn’t come quickly enough. […]
