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, […]
Explorer Bible For Kids
The second week of Advent is upon us. Sunshine beams happy out my window this afternoon. I listened to Annie F. Downs’ Advent podcast on my way to Bible study this morning. This second week focuses on peace and last week’s centers on hope. Thought-provoking and beautiful. Let’s look inside the Explorer Bible for kids!It […]
Bits and Pieces to Delight In {November}
Gazing around the circle, joy and delight tighten my throat and wrap warm right around me. Fifteen faces. Voices mingling. Eyes closed. Open palms. Raised hands. “Holy Spirit, You are welcome here. Come flood this place and fill the atmosphere. Your Glory Lord is what our hearts long for. To be overcome by Your Presence, […]
The Abide Bible
Oh, friends! I’m so delighted to bring you this beautiful Bible! The Abide Bible is lovely inside and out.Of course, we know the Word of God is lovely in itself alone.But I, for one, am grateful for all the Bibles and features available to us.We live in an amazing time!I have friends, real-life friends, I’ve […]
November and Gratitude and A Bible, A Book, and A Study Guide Giveaway
“Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds too simple to be true, but isn’t that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we’re tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.” ~ Ann Voskamp Comrades! November is gracing our […]
Bits and Pieces to Delight In {September}
“Being scared isn’t really that much different than being scarred.” I read it on Ann Voskamp’s blog. It’s true. I nod my head. Read further.Tears prick my eyelids and squeeze at the corners. Scared and scarred both carry trauma and pain. Truth is, it doesn’t even have to be big or deeper traumas. It shows […]
The Good and Beautiful Bookset Giveaway
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 […]
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 […]
Waymaker + Giveaway
The calendar whispers April across the upturned month. Daffodils nod bright smiles brushed with buttery tones by the rockway in my backyard. Purple, white, pink. Hyacinths sway a graceful dance in between chickweed and scruffy grass. Bradford pear buds twist around branches, waiting, waiting for a tiny bit warmer to burst open in dazzling display. […]
A Prayer For Those In Need of a Way Through The Waves
A bit of a preface, comrade friends………..Today I bring us a prayer. The words and heartcry were inspired by Ann Voskamp’s upcoming new book, Waymaker.In a bit of news, two-fold, I am part of an internship group with Ann Voskamp for the duration of 2022 AND our group was graced with an early manuscript reading […]
The Flirtation Experiment
affiliate links in this post, comrades! thank you! Just in time for Valentine’s Day! It’s a giveaway for a copy of The Flirtation Experiment.This book is authored by Lisa Jacobsen and Phylicia Masonheimer. I appreciate the dual perspective we receive. Lisa has been married for nearly thirty years and Phylicia married for seven. Both bring […]
Ten Books On My TBR List For 2022
Here’s to new chapters and doing things for the first time! This is the first I’ve compiled a list of TBR books for my year. NOW. This doesn’t mean these are the ONLY books I want or intend to read.No! No! No! 🙂Hopefully, there will be quite a few more among the number. For several […]