Where did happiness find you this week? What activities or tiny details in life always bring a spark of joy to your soul? What makes you giggle….chuckle….grin….full-out laugh? What brings you comfort when life brings the uncomfortable? Where does your soul find solace when disappointment dashes hopes & dreams? What waits on your soul with […]
Hope Everlasting
A tear trickled down her cheek, past her nose, leaving a wet streak from tear duct to chin. The heaviness had been hovering, edging nearer until it draped around her like a dark suffocating blanket. Loneliness mocked and voices of inadequacy sniveled in derisive, biting anger. She shivered despite the stifling weight flung around her […]
Half the Battle
The wind blew in fierce yesterday afternoon. It was sunshine and ninety degrees with a very large side of windy. It calmed in the evening and then hit again about nightfall in full, shrieking fierceness. I’d left a couple of windows open in the kitchen. Before anyone had the presence of mind to close them, […]
The Beauty of Little Acts of Kindness Matters
Last week, in the middle of a few busy days, my son slid the mail pile onto my kitchen island. It’d been bumping around in the farm pickup. My farmer man had plucked it all out of the mailbox right after lunch. Now, late afternoon found me flipping through it. Smack in the middle was […]
Wherein We Have a Cozy Autumn Movie Giveaway
Ushering in Autumn My front door is happily open and the white screen door with the pretty bric-a-brac, stands more smartly at attention, proud to usher merry little breezes across the threshold. They pull and tug at the ribbon tails fluttering above the geometric golden wreath adorning the happily open door. Distant barking echoes across […]
In Which I Muse About Assurance
Assurance could look like a signed contract. It might be in the number of place value holders stamped on our bank statement. Assurance may feel like meal plans or lesson plans, vacation plans or run-away-from-Nineveh-plans. Assurance sometimes disdainfully and smugly plants itself in the territory of how-right-I-am. Perhaps assurance comes in the form of a […]
A Simple Tuesday in 2020
On a simple Tuesday morning, in the midst of August, in the year of our Lord, two thousand and twenty… I’m anticipating… • that life will not always be as it is today. In an upheaval and uncertainty of days. In a madness of strong opinions and fears on either end of the pendulum. In […]
Seven Feasts Bible Study
Hey friends! What are you looking forward to this week? I’ve told Matthew several times how strange I find it for this year to feel loooong in some ways, yet at the same time here we are closing July out already! I’m quite delighted to bring you a giveaway today for a new Bible study […]
Catching My Attention
Catching my attention on this Wednesday in July What am I inputting?.How might a slight shift in perspective help me see things from a different angle?.What is breathing beauty into my day?.What made me laugh recently?.Could I break out a puzzle or game for brain exercise?.What have I been savoring?.Have I taken time to be […]
Wandering and Wondering in My Yard Tonight
I wandered in my yard tonight.Gave solemn thanks for glorious light.I wondered in my yard tonight.Of His redeeming love and might..I wandered in my yard tonight.A loyal dog friend at my side.I wondered in my yard tonight.Of Jesus’ whisper, soft, “Abide.”.I wandered in my yard tonight.Admired dahlias blooming bright.I wondered in my yard tonight.He looks […]
I Still Believe Digital Giveaway
Happy Friday! Have you been able to watch the new movie I Still Believe yet? If not, I have a giveaway for you today! {I have a giveaway for you, EVEN if you have watched it! 🙂 It’s a good movie to own.} I’m happy to get to offer a giveaway for a digital copy […]
Ten Devotionals From the Bookshelves
I really love devotionals and I think they make lovely gifts. I love them for busy days when you may not have much time to read, but you can still snag a few minutes to read a page or two. I appreciate the ability to read partway through, lay the book aside for a while, […]
I Never Missed a Moment
On a Wednesday morning, I attend the commemoration of a life well-lived. The celebration of graduating from this body of skin and bones and sinew, housing soul and spirit, into the presence and majesty of Jesus. Can we only imagine sitting face to face, completely enveloped and warmed by His extravagant love?! Truly experiencing the […]
Ten Tips For Adding Laughter To Your Day
Laughter brings lightness to the heart! Laughter softens sharp edges. Laughter diminishes discouragement. Laughter adds music notes to our days! Is there anything quite as delightful as a baby’s giggle?! A child’s happy chuckle or squeal of mirth?! The older I get the more I believe it takes effort and thoughtful intention to chase after […]
Three Antidotes Against Discouragement, Inadequacies and Comparison
Voxer beeps and I pick up my phone to listen to the incoming message. My sister and I chat back and forth with our handy-dandy app. She shares about the struggles she’s been facing and I confess the irritations and insecurities I’ve been fighting against all morning. We ponder a few questions batting them back […]
A Common Masterpiece
Raspberry coffee drips in the coffeemaker. The quiet of the morning surrounds me. My farmer man left early, thus the raspberry dripping. I sent him out the door with hazelnut and a splash of half and half in his insulated mug, given to us by the insurance company, their name scrawled in letters across the side. Sliding the […]
The Wonder in Winter
Last week we were living in a fairy frostyland! It was so absolutely beautiful and breathtaking! In part, I’m sure, because I mostly was able to stay inside. 😊 . There’s something enchanting and magical about hoarfrost as it gathers and grows thicker, silently and invisibly. It frosts everything with pointed beauty, a cross between […]
