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 […]
Ten Favorite Books I Read in 2021
Hello ADG comrades. Here are ten titles that topped my list of books I read in 2021. I bring nine chapter books and one super-de-duper sweet and heartwarming and charming children’s picture book. They are listed in the order I read them throughout the year. {other than the Kid Pick} {My favorite books in 2020 […]
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 […]
Looking For Lovely and Creating a List
I don’t want to know Jesus only for what He can do for me. I want to know Jesus because of what He has already done for me. Emmanuel. God with us. Luke 7:16-17 ~“Great fear swept the crowd, and they praised God, saying, “A mighty prophet has risen among us,” and “God has visited […]
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 […]
Wherein We Talk About an Animated David Movie + a Giveaway
Today we have a plethora of fun things for us. An animated movie, an opportunity to help fund it, and a book giveaway….with an autographed copy, no less! {Pssst…I think autographed books are so very fun. 🙂 } Here’s what the creators are saying about The David Movie ~ “Sunrise Animation Studios has embarked on […]
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 […]
Bringing the Christmas Blessing Cash Giveaway 2021
The Christmas season has always been a favorite of mine. I’m sure in part, because of all that is cozy in it. My Christmas tree has been bringing me so much happiness this year. It always does, but the twinkle lights have felt especially hopeful this year. It feels like the world is a little […]
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 […]
A Prayer of Light
A prayer for this day, this month of December ~ Our Lord God ~ Adonai Elohim Your word tells us the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light. We sit in darkness on these long winter evenings and we long for This Light to make a way in our weary world.We pray, […]
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 […]