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. š . 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 […]
Ten Ways I Find Contentment
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 […]
Wherein I Muse About BrainStorms
{My Definition} {With a Droll Bit of Banter} BrainStorm: | \ ĖbrÄn-ĖstČÆrm (noun)1. A sudden tossing and whirling of everything in my brain, mixing it in a muddle. Happens unexpectedly and periodically without warning.2. Mental confusion and rattled concentration causing the brain to work in fits and starts.3. Sudden lightening flashes followed by booming, spell-binding […]
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. š Or, in this case, I may find myself thinking, “Narrow it down to one thing?!” […]
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 […]
Some Of The Most Beautiful Things In Life We Can’t Hold In Our Hands
Some of the most beautiful things in life are the things we can’t hold in our hands. Things like beauty and laughter and amazement and memories and golden days and the gift of time and kisses and adventures and successes and awe and accomplished tasks and salvation and wonder and delight and kind deeds and […]
Happiness Begets Gratefulness and Gratefulness Begets Happiness
I find happiness in gratefulness. This isn’t to say I’m always happy. Or always grateful. I’m not. I’m neither ALL the time nor even close to acquiring these attributes as I’d really like to. Yet. Gratefulness begets Happiness. And. Happiness begets gratefulness. They grow together casting a sweet fragrance in the pathway of everything they […]
In This House
In This House………. …there are quite often crumbs on the floors and dust in the corners. …you will find at least a few dirty dishes piled in the sink……..and sometimes a whole teetering stack! …items rest quietly on the counter waiting their return to rightful homes. …there is always dirty laundry. …often, a basket of […]
Wherein I Remind Myself Of No Guarantees and Every Good Day
Back in June, Fatherās Day finds us in our favorite place. Home. We arenāt all-out celebrators of holidays like Motherās Day and Fatherās Day and Valentineās 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 […]
Make the Memories Because We Can
In the rhythms and routines of life, The day-to-day, The simple tasks. The have-tos and must-be-dones. Along the edges and cracks. We find ourselves creating. Creating though we do not see it forming at the time. We mold memories. Traditions arise and unfold in the threads and edges. Unplanned, really. One day we tell. We […]
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 […]
Ten Super Simple Ways to Be a Pleasant Person
I think about the character I desire to have and the type of person I want to be. I miss the mark a lot, but it inspires me and does me good to think about the attributes I want in my life. This year my focus words have been a combination and intertwining of […]
