“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. […]
Kindness Comes in Many Forms
Kindness comes in many forms. Kindness is quiet at times. Simple. Kindness steals in on silent tiptoes. Kindness cheers loudly sometimes! Kindness smiles bravely. Kindness is found in everyday extras. Kindness is there in kind words, glad smiles, shared tears. Kindness pops up in a text on my phone and an email in […]
Floating on God’s Grace
I tap the app for YouTube and I type Casting Crowns by the blinking cursor in the search box. I can’t think of the name of their song I’m searching for. I scroll a bit and then, there it is! Thrive. I tap the box and tap the play and in as many seconds the music […]
Faith and Focus on the Unseen
For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. So we do not focus on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 Mary Magdalene went early. While it was still dark. […]
My Savior, My Jesus
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be FILLED! ~ Matthew 5:6 ~ Blessed Good Friday ~ I keep thinking about it. How I don’t excel very well at unselfishness. I’m not great at sacrificing for someone else. I don’t enjoy pain. I seek peace and avoid confrontation. Conflict stresses […]
I Will Fight To Delight In All That Is Beauty And Blessing
Last Fridays was a beautiful Kansas Friday…the thermometer holding steady at 68 degrees. The sun beamed gently and the wind lay still and silent, a welcome respite after Monday and Tuesday, when it howled savagely and relentlessly, blowing dirt in waves and beating against our baby wheat fields. I look out the window and I […]
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 […]
Your Will, Lord
Ever always in Your will, This, Oh Lord, my steadfast prayer. Till I dwell with You up there. Keep me close in constant care. Praying always in Your will, My spirit humble, seeking You. Clasping tight upon Your truth. My aim, Your will, in all I do. Seeking yet more of Your will, […]
Choosing Happy
This rug-turned-wall-hanging graces the space at the bottom of my basement stairway. I see it there, every time I glance down the stairway, every time I descend the stairway. It reminds me. Today matters. Today is what I have. My attitude is something I always get to choose. My happiness is in my own […]
Steadfast and SSMT 2017
S ~ Steady, stable, staying, T ~ Tried and true to stand, E ~ Everlasting Faithfulness, A ~ All flowing from His Hand. D ~ Destined to give Him glory, F ~Forever He’s my stay, A […]
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 […]
Of People, Places and Precious Memories
This time of year finds us focusing a good bit on birth, babies, and firstborns. We think about mangers and swaddling clothes and scratchy straw. We listen for the cry of a newborn and watch for the bright light of the star. We wrap gifts and send greetings to people we love. Today, my mind […]
Orange Garland and Joy to the World Advent Book {Pages and Projects}
For two or three years now, I’ve thought very much about purchasing the Advent study from She Reads Truth, but so far I never had. I love the Christmas season, but it adds extras and I didn’t know if I would get the study done. We often travel and I always had other Bible studies […]
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 […]