Contentment is found in…………. …delighting in the Lord! …giving grateful thanks! …trusting my God to know best. …choosing to see the beauty in every new day, every good day. …choosing Christ as my foundation. …confidence in Christ, come what may. …seeing the beauty in life, AND seeking it, even when I have to search harder. […]
Editing What Matters
We can edit until the edges are frayed. We can critique until the critics collapse. We can pinch and pull and prod trying to create a perfect pizza dough circle. We can count calories and carbs and check our Fitbit and check boxes trying to create a perfect image. We can pendulum swing from one […]
Contentment: My Focus Word For 2019
Have you chosen a Focus Word for the Year? Did you have one in 2018? Where do you find your heart led as you consider 2019? Steadfast… 2017 was the first year I locked into a focus word and felt the heartbeat of it.Steadfast was my word and the deep longing of my heart and […]
The Glory of the Plan of God
Dear, dear Father, Thank you for all your good, good gifts. Help us, Lord, in your strength to fully live into today, this moment, pulling all the joy and happiness from it and seeing it in the people you have blessed us with. May we comprehend a tiny bit more the total unexplainable gift of […]
Our Reel of Time and the Real Highlight Reel
My calendar, my planner and my phone all report to me with today’s date as Thursday, December 20. As always, I want to argue a bit and demand at least one of the trio to tell me, where the days of 2018 have marched away to. Surely we cannot find ourselves only 11 days […]
What is Your Biggest Challenge or Struggle Today?
What is your biggest challenge or struggle right now? I like to hear answers to these types of questions when people want to share, but I confess sometimes I have a question, but am unsure of my OWN answer. đ Or, in this case, I may find myself thinking, “Narrow it down to one thing?!” […]
Living Life, Un-Canceled
I sat across from my friend at her kitchen island as we discussed pain. She wasnât feeling her best and I told her she couldâve cancelled our plans. She looked me in the eye and replied, âYou canât cancel life.â I mulled these words over for a long time. Itâs true. You canât cancel […]
The Baby in the Manger Comes for Us!
I curl in my chair, adjusting and resituating to ease the aches and pressure that are often a constant nag in my back and feet. The first Monday in December found me praying over friends and praying a wonderful December and Christmas season for them and the people they love. It’s a beautiful, wonderful time […]
Thoughts on Thursday
The air is chill, with a bite, today and I’m happy to hurry in out of this wintertime wind. The glorious light and sunshine against blue sky do their part in making up for it. As my tires hummed along pavement in the direction of home, after I’d rolled my cart around Walmart […]
Page and Projects {Three Beautiful Journals By Ellie Claire}
Look at these beautiful journals! I have three to show you today. These journals are from Ellie Claire Gifts at Worthy Publishing. Let’s look inside The Illustrated Word journal first. I love the orange binding on the spine. This journal is also a museum of the Bible book. Here’s what the back of the journal […]
Wherein I Remind Myself Of No Guarantees and Every Good Day
Back in June, Fatherâs Day finds us in our favorite place. Home. We arenât all-out celebrators of holidays like Motherâs Day and Fatherâs Day and Valentineâs Day and on the list goes. Sometimes we notice and we do something a bit celebratory. Other times we nod at the day and blow it a well-wish of […]
Wherein I Muse About Hay Bales and Gleaning and Ruth
I sat in the back of my Yukon last Wednesday evening, feet on the bumper, as my good farmer man wrestled with a baler and a belt. . I gazed across the field and breathed in deep the scent of mown feed that the baler had been hungrily ingesting and compressing into round bales, before […]
Reminded of My Freedom
{pumpkins available from Sew a Fine Seam} Galatians 5:1 ~ It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. . May bondage be broken, Words of life spoken. Oppression removed. Forever live loved. Dwelling in You! […]
Thank-You Lord For Listening
Here I am, Lord ~ me ~ and the page and my pen and my heart and my words to pour out to You — thank-you, Lord, that I never have to wait for You to show up. I just must show up and You’re ready to settle in with me and listen. Thank […]
Faithful Forever
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them – the Lord, who remains faithful forever!!! ~ Psalm 146:5-6Â F ather A bba I mmeasurable Love T rustworthy H ighly exalted F eels my […]
What’s The Most Beautiful Part Of Your Life Right Now?
What’s the most beautiful part of your life right now? We gather around white plastic tables with pink carnations centered on each one. Chatter and rustles circle the room as we open brown paper boxes to reveal sandwiches, cookies and fruit. Small bags of chips and water bottles dot the tables too. The rise and […]
God’s Got It {And It’s Under Control}
I’m so happy to bring you this guest post today, shared by my friend, Jennifer Dukes Lee from her newly released book, It’s All Under Control. {you’ve seen me talking about it!!! Posts here and here} As a farmer’s wife for twenty-one years, I really resonate with this post of Jennifer’s.  At the […]
