“When I leave this earth, I want people to know I was faithful, but even more than that, I want people to know Christ is faithful.” ~ Hazel, Love Idol by Jennifer Dukes Lee I’m with you Hazel! I want my life to glorify God, and while I often don’t feel all that good at […]
Expectant Hope
I come across these verses this week and I have to laugh a little. Psalm 38:7 “My back is filled with searing pain; and there is no health in my body.” Psalm 38:17 “For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.” I pen them in my journal from @wellwateredwomen. […]
Marriage is Sharing Life
Marriage is sharing. Marriage is sharing hot drinks, inside jokes and laughter. Marriage is doing little I-love-you things, knowing what makes the other person happy, sharing in a life, creating a life together moment by moment. Marriage is sharing dreams, giving up dreams, making sacrifices. It’s a whole lot of give-and-take. It’s taking walks, taking […]
Gratitude on Tuesday and Favorite Books Too
Tuesday holds the ordinary, the everyday, and the small. Give us courage to sit on a bench and listen to the secrets small things have to teach us. ~ Emily P. Freeman the • delightful daily details • docket…. {the gratitude list} pink pastels painted across the horizon tips this morning and shimmering in […]
Why I Fight To Delight In The Daily Details
There’s a reason I fight to delight in the daily details. There’s a reason I count gratitude for simple things and every good day. There’s a reason I try to create beauty in my home and everyday. There’s a reason I lean into looking for laughter and hunting out happiness. There’s a reason I meditate […]
Living Love Out Over and Over
L•ove is choosing O•ver and over to share life V•icariously together and find the E•xtraordinary in the everyday. L•ove is holding tight O•ver and over when life V•ents its troubles […]
Wherein I Will Once Again Be Grateful For Dirty Dishes and Laundry {After I Complain}
Last night, all I could see were dirty dishes and laundry that needed folded. I was tired and irritable and it looked like too much. I can not take one more dirty dish or laundry that never ends. I have a mini meltdown and exclaim to my husband that I am so tired of dirty […]
Christmas and the Common
Souls are shaped in the common moments of life, the daily stuff of memories. ~ Sally Clarkson, The Life Giving Table @sally.clarkson On our calendars, on December 25, Christmas, we celebrate Christ’s entrance into the world and even more we get to embrace Christ in our every day lives every single day! Christ cares […]
A Kansas Walk and an Ankle and Things That Turn Out All Right
I took a walk today. I stepped out my door in the November sunshine and when I realized it was a most gorgeous Kansas day with azure skies and nice temps and no wind, I returned to the house and I dug out a sweater and socks and I laced my tennis shoes right up. […]
A Thanksgiving Harvest
I watch the smoke spiral up from the sweet corn stalks and general garden tangle and I confess my first reaction is “glad-to-see-that-mess go” followed quickly by “no-garden-next-year” all played in sour tones and trebles. Then, I pause, a bit ashamed. Yes. That garden did become a big tangled, overgrown mess. It made me feel […]
In the Dry and Dusty Seasons
In the dry and dusty seasons, when the blooms begin to fade, And the flowers of the season begin to wilt away, And the wind is whooping stronger, time seems a little longer, Waiting for refreshing showers of rain. The dust encircles round me and it oft obstructs my view, Hiding distant landscape from […]
The Beauty of the Rose’s Bloom
I’m willing to brave the pain of the thorns, to capture the beauty of the roses. ~ DJF I pour my heartbreak in your hands, My Father. Lord. And here I stand. Amidst these pieces, Shattered wide. Scattered. Shards, shreds inside. Hopes long dashed. Battles lost. Failures felt. Dreams in dust. Tried and tried […]
Pages and Projects {Persevere Devotional Kit}
Mail call! Along with envelopes and magazines, there was a box from Dayspring! We were packing and preparing to head for Colorado for a few days, when this package made its appearance from my mailbox onto my kitchen island. I was delighted! Inside was a Bible Devotional kit by Illustrated Faith..Persevere. The name for this […]
We Saved You a Seat
Have you “heard” {a.k.a read my post} me talk about the book Never Unfriended by Lisa-Jo Baker? {If not, you can go right over to this post and check it out.} {You can’t physically check the book out like you would at your local library, BUT you can check out my chit-chat about it.} {Furthermore, your […]
Liberated by the Light
So tired of intimidated, I want to bathe in liberated. And live in Christ, for I am free. Free indeed. These devil’s lies wrapped around me, They’re false. So wrong entirely. Their choking hold I’ve been so fooled. Not anymore. I’m who my Jesus says I am, Redemption’s plan. From Great I Am. For me, […]
Think Write Thursday {A Pretend Afternoon Gathering of Girls}
The email for Think Write Thursday hit my inbox and here’s what it said. {linking up with Carole} This week’s topic is…………. to plan a dinner party, inviting THREE people, living or dead. ….insert my thought here…{Although it would probably be easier for them to attend if they aren’t, well, dead.} 😉 tell us: who […]