May this year shine bright with light and delight,With rest and good cheer and peace and hope near,With comfort in grief, with faith for belief,With a friend and a song,When the road becomes long. May encouragement come at the very right time,And strength be renewed for each mountain we climb,May sun warm your face and […]
Glory Through All Ages
God our Father ~Glory to you for sending your Son -the newborn King- to earth for us.Glory to you this Christmas.Long ages after his newborn cry split the sky.Glory through all ages. The Great I AmWho is and wasAnd evermore and always isAnd is to come. The Rock of all Ages,Come through the ages,For every […]
Helpful, Hopeful, Beautiful
My criteria for who and what and where I spend my time online and on social media has always held certain parameters. I named it more specifically in this way. What I’m following must be helpful, hopeful, or beautiful. We become consumed by what we consume. Every so often I reassess. What once was helpful […]
Wonders of His Love
Here’s the soundtrack I hope is playing when I exit earthside and enter heaven. I hope the instruments of heaven and the choir of voices are all in full chorus of “the Wonders of His Love” like the joyful and compelling rendition by Casting Crowns. What better greeting than wondering at His love as one […]
Keep At It
To all the creators and dreamers and makers and vulnerable people showing up to share their work, words, music. {and this is all of us, anyone breathing, because we all create in some way, all made to produce art of a myriad of types by our Creator} • A Word For You • Keep at […]
A Prayer For the Ones Carrying Suffering and Sorrow
A Prayer For the Ones Carrying Suffering and Sorrow Jesus, thank you that you are not distantly removed from suffering. Thank you that you meet us in our suffering. You endured suffering to share in our heartache. Jesus, you bottle tears. You soothe fears. Your comfort and compassion relentlessly carries us through the quicksand. Endless […]
Emmanuel God With Us
Emmanuel • God With Us. Every era.Every kingdom.Every nation.Every nationality.Every person created in His very image.Every size and shape and age.Every skin color.For mighty. For meek. For the strong and the weak.For the questioning.For the doubter.For those waiting longingly for His appearance.For shepherds. For Pharisees.For women. For children.For friends and friendless. Enemies and strangers.For the […]
I Was Happily Singing
“I was happily singing.” The words drifted from the backseat in petulant tones as only a put-out four-year-old could utter them. My laughter bubbled out as the words permeated our vehicle with the same petulance for a second time. “I was happily singing.” Nothing about the complaint seemed to indicate much happiness of singing. It […]
Pilgrimage
Perhaps we find these days of December a bit like a pilgrimage as we wind our way through aisles and tissue and lists. As we navigate sorrow and loss co-mingled with joy and hope and peace.We mourn what was, sometimes what is, or what could have been.The bright and shiny sits next to the disappointed […]
The True Light Was Coming
John 1:4-12 ~“The Word gave life to everything that was created, and His life brought light to everyone. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it. God sent a man, John the Baptist, to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony. John himself was not the light; he […]
And As It Happened
And as it happened….the heavens began to count down the days when they would need to offer the greatest gift to a broken and needy world. As many things are, this moment wasn’t an either/or but it held the weightiness of both/and. The glorious extravagance of what God was doing was a grace amazing. Yet […]
The Wonder of Creation
I scanned back over the giveaways we’ve had at ADG in 2021. It was super fun to browse and remember! I’d forgotten some of them. We’ve had a myriad of lovely books, a Bible, and a game. My IG story archives are fun to look back into too. Last year about this time, we had […]
October Musings
I fully intended to post my October Musings last week.It didn’t happen. O B V I O U S L Y. Here we are at the very end of this week!This past Sunday evening, we hosted a hayride, and dips and chips, and a campfire for our neighboring young people. I spent a bit of […]
September Musings
Hey, hey comrade friends! Our September has shown up with some summertime temps. We had a few really lovely days and I flung open windows and the front door. The heat crept back however and…well you’ll see below I’m anticipating cooler days! Also, shall we talk about the wind?! It’s gusted a little too gustily […]
The Loneliness of Silence
“God invites us to turn to each other as ones in whom Christ dwells as living homes of God to confess His goodness until we begin to believe it.” ~ Emily P. Freeman I’d loved lifting the blind each morning and taking a peek at the new sunrise breaking across the dawn of sky,What had […]
Roar Like a Lion Giveaway
Today, ADG comrades, we have a brightly colored children’s devotional waving hello! And look below! There’s a giveaway to enter!!! Cartwheels and whoop-de-doops! I had fun flipping through the review copy of Roar Like a Lion and snapping a few flatlay photos of it for this post. I’ll be sharing more photos inside on my […]
Wherein I Contemplate Choosing to Listen to The Voice of Truth
Once upon a time, which is another way of saying, probably ten or twelve years ago, there was a little brother and his big sister. As it happens, this little boy and little bit bigger girl belonged to me. And as the history of our story goes, we had a new music CD that my […]
