"And now these three remain…faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
Posting at The Lulu Tree this morning. Join me there? The rain pattered down against our windows, sliding like tears over the cold glass. It should have been snowing, but that year the rain seemed more fitting. I was sitting alone in the quiet of an evening just before Christmas, cradling in my arms a […]
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A post by Sarah Siders at the Lulu Tree blog. These beautiful words sum up so much truth about Thanksgiving, and thanks-giving. Please click through to read the whole post! They are always smiling, and it doesn’t make sense. Their hips sway, their hands clap together, their eyes sparkle with a strong, resilient hope I […]
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Recently I saw a picture of God’s redemptive love in action when friends of ours brought home the beautiful boy they’d adopted from Africa. Their journey to adopting little Zak* was fraught with roadblocks, political issues, twists and turns, hope and heartbreak. What should have taken less than a year stretched on for nearly three, […]
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Warp and weft, words for the crossing threads of a weaver’s loom. Warp, running from sky to soil…weft, the length of the distant horizon. I’ve been thinking lately of the One who weaves our lives together, and how He takes those threads and works them into something new, something good. Sometimes, He chooses threads that […]
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This time of year finds me standing in the kitchen, windows open wide against the heat of the stove, the heat of that golden September light. I am standing on the tile floor, standing in the kitchen, my shoes sticking and pulling like they do on the movie theater floor at the end of a […]
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The little girl in the front row has big brown eyes, framed by thick black lashes. Her hair hangs in ringlets past her shoulders, and her rosy cheeks are round with the last traces of babyhood that still cling sometimes to a first-grade silhouette. Children’s ministry is a blessing, a blessing in which the teachers […]
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What does it take for what we see with our eyes to make it to our hearts? The news these days, the things our eyes have taken in…I can barely type the words. I saw the men on their knees, chins bravely raised to the knife of ISIS. The children, “married” to men three times […]
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Dear Foster Boys, It’s hard to believe that you are four and five now, both of you have birthdays coming up and will (even more unbelievably) be five and six in no time at all. Five and six! How can that be? Time moves so fast, boys. So very fast. This is the year […]
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A post from the archives, as kids start school this year and I’m reeling a bit at how quickly time passes… It’s a strange feeling, standing here in this mostly empty house. It has been nearly 3 years, but it still feels like home. It’s hard, renting out the place that once was your home. […]
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My son was born just five months after we moved out of state, and I’ll never forget how it felt to be so alone as a new mother. I had my husband, and one of the reasons we’d moved in the first place was to give us a place where we could start fresh and […]
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