Is it fall where you are? It is decidedly NOT here in Kansas. Teehee. Our thermometers keep climbing to the high nineties and the rain continues to refuse our hearty invitations!We did have one weekend of lovely weather and cooler temps.We built a fire in the Solo stove and basked in savoring it. TODAY!!! A […]
Bits and Pieces to Delight In {August}
We Are Not Alone Ah, friends. We are not alone. Some days our emotions shoot up, out, over with the pressure of a geyser. Sometimes the pressures of life sound like the roar of the river, tugging, tugging, tugging until we waterfall over the edge. I was wrong when I pictured life flowing as a […]
The Illusion
The illusion bobs and bounces in a swirl of watercolor hues. Amidst teenage angst and insecurities and awkwardness, I believe middle-aged people have it all figured out. Life looks simple and easy. Effortless. Successful. Settled. Delightful. I’m not sure why this illusion beckoned me. Seemed believable. Goodness. I’d seen my mother burst into tears when […]
You Are His Masterpiece
Beauty in my week last week looked like…. Our local coffee shop + five lovely young women in our community who hosted a women’s evening consisting of ~ 🙏🙌💛☕🧁 faith + fellowship worship + words music + munchies coffee + conversation hygge + happiness @__grow.in.grace__ “Lord, I need you, oh I need you.” Our voices mingled […]
Bits and Pieces to Delight In {July}
Hello! Hi! July has been All The Summer here. High, high heat. The forecast hangs hot and heavy with the same heat forecasted and not a sign of a drop of rain!The sprinklers are running on our little patch of lawn by our basement patio and the irrigation systems churn water onto our beans. I’m […]
What Really Matters Now…..
What really matters now is linen overalls and Arnold Palmer and air conditioning…. What really matters now is ice and water and insulated jugs….. What really matters now is embracing the unexplained right next to the unavoidable and offering it all a measure of trust and hope and longing…. What really matters now is rambling […]
A Place For the Soul to Feel Safe in the Awkward Playacting of Life
You sit across from me on the cozy cerulean chair cushion, chatter, clatter, and espresso machine buzzing around us, your lemon-yellow kerchief corralling lovely curls.Me, legs curled criss-cross applesauce, snug on the vintage couch. My hands curled around a decaf cinnamon breve with whip while you sip a mocha complete with a lovely chocolate drizzle. My […]
Practices I’m Finding For the Word This Summer
I’d love to hear! When it comes to Bible reading and sitting with The Word in the Word, do you have one tried and true practice or do you find it shifting in different seasons, different stages, different ages? I find myself in the latter camp. Mine changes. {here’s another post about Bible + routine […]
Ten Things Bringing Me Delight These Summer Days
A few favorites……a few life-giving practices…..a few ways to delight in the daily………. My lovely prayer journal ~ jotting lines each evening or morning. The practice grounds me. Watering flowers……..I love slipping out in the evening dusk and offering all the thirsty plants a drink. The heat has subsided some by then and our backyard […]
Dear Me: Lines to the Person I Desire To Become
Compassion. Love. Hope. My fingers press against the words lettered in the journal in my lap. Why is it so much easier to heap condemnation, critique, and criticism on my heart, my mind, myself? And in so doing, really, I’m mired in myself. I may not admire myself, but self-absorption shows up in a myriad of […]
Pondering Life and Its Passing
Early this morning my uncle breathed his last breath, earthside. Honestly, I’m not sure what heavenside looks like, but I do see Jesus. I always picture Him as excited and delighted. Another one of His kids, HOME! Early this morning, 3 a.m. early, my kids headed to the city to board a plane: Destination ~ […]
Bits and Pieces to Delight In {June}
Every year we have wheat fields to walk and combat our nemesis known as rye. It waves, delighted with itself, a bit above our winter red wheat. We are not so delighted. If left, and consequently run through the combine, it will multiply in staggering amounts thereby consuming our clean wheat fields. Last October, we […]
Ann Voskamp Bookset Giveaway {Reading for Your Summer}
{affliate links in this post, friends. thank-you!} Comrades ~ it’s a bookstack day!Kansas is showing off a perfect summer day today.Blue, blue skies, white puffy clouds. 103 degrees.Combines gobbling the wheat as harvest rolls along. It’s lemonade in sweating glasses.It’s float in the pool.It’s grab a book and head for the hammock in the evening […]
Bits and Pieces To Delight In {May}
Peonies. Beautiful blooms. They delighted me for every minute they swayed on their stalks. They don’t hang around long. I wonder if that isn’t part of their enchanting charm. They are a distinct reminder to savor What Is Here and Now. I’ve been writing the books I’m reading in My Reading Life journal. I have […]
Bits and Pieces To Delight In {April}
Spring is my favorite. I’m glad to welcome it in, though it’s been slow and teasing and windy and springing from hot and cold in all of its edging in coming. The violets have sprung up in the woods and daffodils and tulips delighted us with their blooms. Here are a few of the things […]
The Love of Jesus Looks, Feels, Sounds Like…
🌿 H A L L E L U J A H 🌿 He’s Risen Indeed. {full stop} The Love of Jesus looks like arms stretched wide, back laid bare, blood running down, thorns into scalp through tangled, matted hair. The Love of Jesus sounds like “Not my will, but yours, Father, only protect and shield […]
This Morning
I wonder where Barabbas is this morning? A bit of an unlikely character.He’d no idea his name would become notoriously etched in holy script. How many criminals and traitors, justly or unjustly charged, must have passed through Roman prison cells and swinging doors? I wonder if Barabbas encountered Jesus.I’m not enough of a historian to […]
