Falling I look at the collection of leaves scattered across my front lawn.Golden hues among a blanket of brown with hidden hints of orange and red. I think about the immense beauty that can be found in endings. I think about Frodo on his perilous journey, Mordor looming dark and foreboding. A glint of gold […]
The Goodness of God Around Us
Sarah Westfall writes this:“The liturgy of the little things is an intentional, daily practice of paying attention to the goodness of God that is already around us.” The right here, right now.It’s being where our feet are.Noticing immense beauty in the mundane minutes, the gritty patterns of our Thursdays or our Fridays. Today, the goodness of […]
The Second Collection of Liturgies of the Little Things
A Glimpse If you look out my kitchen window you catch a glimpse of our backyard.The rosebushes, messy grass, arborvita.Wooden trim frames the window. Curtains flutter from the tension rod inside the sill.This is the visual. This is what you see.Yet it’s a fraction of the whole, a paragraph apart from the whole story.You won’t […]
Surprised By Oxford Movie and Giveaway
Happy Monday! Happy week!I’m delighted to tell you about a movie available to rent or buy this month of November!You are now able to watch SURPRISED BY OXFORD from the comfort ofyour own home.Step inside the beauty of Oxford University and discover a timeless story about asking life’s big questions. I bought the book in […]
The Work of Play
I love to look through a lens.To frame.Curate. Create. This practice is how I show up as a visual artist. When I’m out and about without a camera, I am forever framing things inside my head. I’m quite amateur, two-part hobby. Myriads of people are on the list named “Better At This Than I Am.” Yet, I […]
Journey To Bethlehem Movie Tickets Giveaway
Musicals. Live Theater. Movies. Stories.I love these works of creativity, this method of bringing messages, a way of sharing words.There are many genres or storylines that aren’t for me or don’t resonate.But for the many that don’t, other productions, do. For the ones where I am not the captive audience or ideal reader, other people […]
A Collection of Liturgies of the Little Things
Muted Autumn Muted autumn.It speaks of the beauty of cycles and seasons, rhythms and rest, glory and goodness.It sounds of cadence and crunch, drifting leaves and dried seed pods,honking geese and crackling hearthfires.Muted Autumn.An embrace, an exhale,A metastasis, a muse,A quietude.Muted Autumn.A welcome home. Beauty Bursts Beauty bursts.In obvious places, like flower bloomsAnd arranged bouquets,But […]
A Benediction, Musings, and a Writing Prompt
Welcome in friends. It’s a simple Tuesday in November. Come. Sit. Pause. Breathe.Share with me a benediction and a writing prompt that I prepared and shared with my writer friends recently as we gathered around a hearth and crackling woodfire in Canada. Today, we meet, you and I, wherever we find ourselves. Comrades through our […]
In Which We Have A Peripeti Home Candle Giveaway
Look what arrived along with November?! I’m delighted to share Peripeti Home candles with you. Not only do I have candles to share through our screens, Peripeti Home has partnered with us for a giveaway! Hurrah! And Ta-da!!!!Look at these two lovely fragrances they packaged with care and sent my way. Peripeti Home offers seasonal […]
Formation in the Practice of Delight
I go through the motions on autopilot. Press the garage door opener. Start the engine. Shift to reverse. All rote. Repeated dozens and dozens and dozens of times. He catches my eye as I back my Yukon out the open garage door. Stretched on the porch step, Theodore blissfully, sleepily, soaks in the sunshine. He […]
AwkwardLand and the Tilt-a-Whirl of Doing It Scared
Tinny music floats from the calliope.Eclectic colors, patterns, and textures create a bright mish-mash.Throngs tramp through. Most hurry to find an exit.Barkers bid for attention determined what they have to offer offers an all-time fix. It’s all a bit distracting. A bit loud. A bit disorienting. I’ve spent most of my life in Awkward Land.Neither […]
We Only Pass This Way Once
We only pass this way once. I sit cross-legged on my couch and consider these words. It doesn’t matter how many times I turn the wheel and navigate my driveway and my dirt road, I only pass this way once. Every morning I arise, follow somewhat the same routine, pad through our rooms – bedroom, […]
September Kaleidoscope
“Attention – deep, sustained, undeviating – is in itself an experience of a very high order.” ~ Roberto Gerhard Books Delightful Incidentals I measured flour and butter and sugar. A bit of vanilla and water and stirred up pie dough this last week of September. The oven hummed its pre-heat song as I rolled out […]
A Collection To Keep Company With
The August heat bears down on us. It’s been insufferable, exhausting, inescapable.Relentless and unrelenting.This week has wilted our crops, withered the tomato vines, and waned most of our ambition. The fierce sun and temperatures topping over one hundred are good for only a handful of things.Swimming, splashing, sprinklers.Air conditioning, icy arnold palmers, and as little […]
Souldeep Symphony: Soulsafe Space
“Most people’s souls are buried beneath mounds of activity, excuses, comforts, noise, addictions, laughter, small talk, romance, therapy, and entertainment. We are like passengers on a subway, moving quickly from one obligation, relationship, or activity to another, seldom stopping to wonder who and where we really are. Sometimes it seems like the church is trying […]
Wherein We Look at the Life Counsel Bible and Have a Giveaway
A week ago, this past Friday, the Life Counsel Bible arrived at my door for me to review, photograph, and share with you. {Pssstt…there’s also an Amazon gift card giveaway at the end of this post!} I have a small collection of Bibles, several from reviews and giveaways, that I’ve shared here at ADG with […]
August Kaleidoscope
With Open Hands With open hands, I bring my prayers, my questions, my people, my anxious fears, my happy tears,my gratitude spilling over,my laughter and love.I offer it to You,a sacrifice,my soul sings of doubt and despair, of delight and dancing. With open hands, I step into your embrace,Enveloped in the lavender scent of love […]
