"And now these three remain…faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
Thank you to everyone who joined me over at (in)Courage! It was fun to have a chance to write over there, I love how the whole blog just lives up to its name, don’t you? I know that so many of you also struggled with hard family situations growing up, and sometimes it’s easy to […]
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Today I have the privilege of being a guest-writer over at (in)Courage, a warm and wonderful part of the Daysprings website. If you’ve never visited, I hope you’ll head over today and join in the fun. (in)Courage is a place where sisters in Christ can be real, share their hearts, and…well…be Encouraged! Here is a […]
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Some days I feel like I’m walking about wrapped in cotton, plastic bubble wrap, yards of foam. My heart is covered with layers of callous, one deposited over another as the years pass and I am broken, scarred, and broken again. Some days I wonder if my eyes are covered with scales, like the blind […]
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All things bright and beautiful…. Starting a new curriculum today, canning tomato sauce and preparing the house to be painted. We have a litter of kittens, courtesy of the stray who adopted us earlier this Summer…they are nearly ready to go home and have been impossibly cute. Grateful for many things today, but the photos […]
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Image via Wikipedia “They’re like Cheerios in Milk!” Hubby exclaimed as he watched the shepherd try to seperate, or “shed,” five sheep from a clump of sixteen. The animals drew together like woolly magnates, and it was painful to watch the shepherd draw a few out at a time, coax them away from the group […]
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in·spired–adjective. Aroused, animated, or imbued with the spirit to do something, by or as if by supernatural or divine influence: an inspired poet. Have you ever seen it…the moment something ceases to become work and becomes inspired? I think I saw it happen yesterday. For the last year or so, Eldest has been working hard […]
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She held the box of ice cream cones in her hands, staring at it. For a child who was about to enjoy a cold scoop of ice cream on a sweet, crispy cone, she sure looked glum. “What’s wrong?” I asked. Youngest sighed, set the box of cones on the counter. “It’s just that the […]
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I’ve been thinking about writing lately, dusting off my keyboard and working hard to pull myself out of the writing crash I experienced about a year ago. To be honest, there have been setbacks and struggles and I have not felt like writing on many days that I have…written anyway. On days when I feel […]
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Youngest child stroked the cat’s short fur, leaned back on grass and sighed. “I don’t see how anybody could throw out such a beautiful cat,” she said, shaking her head. I bit my lip, nodded, scratched behind the cat’s ears. I smiled at her, the little girl with the big heart. The cat just lay […]
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We traveled to this place, the town where I grew up. Our little house there is going on the market…the house where my husband and I met, the house where we brought our newborn son home from the hospital, the house that has been in my family for thirty-something years, the little house on the […]
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