“It’s ready!” the sweet barista sets the mug in front of me. Whip settles on the foam and caramel drizzle runs ribbons disappearing into the cinnamon latte depths. I express my gratitude, smile, reach toward the warm mug. I’m ready too. I lean in, toward the latte, toward conversation. Flickers from the gas fireplace combine with Christmas […]
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The Three-Fold Gift of Waiting
The calendar days do have to creep. Agonizingly.They tick along as if they have all day, meandering, ambling, lethargic at best.I press my nose against windowglass, focus on the snowflakes falling in flutters. This was the part of anticipation I didn’t appreciate. It meant awaiting, abiding, attending.As a child, the culmination of Christmas couldn’t come quickly enough. […]
Makers Are Chance Takers
Scooping the dough from the bowl, my hands shape it into a ball, smoothing, rounding, rolling. Flour dust hovers as I sift it across the silicone pastry mat. I pat. Flatten the ball into a disc, reach for my french rolling pin. The rolling pin, made by artisans in India, sold by Mercy House, with […]
Lifeway Women’s Bible
I’m delighted to bring us another Bible giveaway! Isn’t it lovely? This yellow-gold made me so happy. It’s beautiful for Christmas, but feels like it encapsulates all the seasons! Bright daffodils in spring, sunshine yellow for summer’s heat, autumn-gold of brilliant leaves, and the gold of Christmas.The Lifeway Women’s Bible would make a meaningful Christmas […]
Walk to the Waiting Manger
With a scraping, a scuffling, a bit of entanglement my son wrestles my Christmas tree down the attic stairway ladder. The fir branches engulf him, teetering one way and another. They poke from the flimsy plastic enshrouding them. Thanking my son profusely for his grunt work, I begin circling our tree, straightening branches, fluffing fake […]
Bits and Pieces to Delight In {November}
Gazing around the circle, joy and delight tighten my throat and wrap warm right around me. Fifteen faces. Voices mingling. Eyes closed. Open palms. Raised hands. “Holy Spirit, You are welcome here. Come flood this place and fill the atmosphere. Your Glory Lord is what our hearts long for. To be overcome by Your Presence, […]
Bits and Pieces That Delight {January}
I like lists. I like fun stuff. I like beauty. I like delight. I like books. I like quotes. I like stickers. I have several blogs or newsletters I enjoy reading which consist of lists similar to this. I’m bringing my own for any of you who, like me, love browsing this type of thing. […]
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 […]
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 Wonder of Creation
I scanned back over the giveaways we’ve had at ADG in 2021. It was super fun to browse and remember! I’d forgotten some of them. We’ve had a myriad of lovely books, a Bible, and a game. My IG story archives are fun to look back into too. Last year about this time, we had […]
October Musings
I fully intended to post my October Musings last week.It didn’t happen. O B V I O U S L Y. Here we are at the very end of this week!This past Sunday evening, we hosted a hayride, and dips and chips, and a campfire for our neighboring young people. I spent a bit of […]
Joyful, Patient, Faithful Devotional for Mamas
Such a delight! I’m absolutely fantabulously pleased to bring you this devotional today, from my friend Jenifer Metzger. Joyful, Patient, Faithful: A 90-Day Devotional for Mom For several years, I’ve collaborated with Jenifer for the Christmas Blessing Giveaway and Summer Blessing Giveaways, if you’ve entered those. Jenifer shares book and Bible giveaways on her blog […]