Blowing and chasing bubbles on sticky summer days. Riding Big Wheels and Cozy Coupes around the carport as fast as their little legs would allow them to pedal. Listening to favorite books. Laughing at new movies. Eating snacks and baking their own creations. Cuddling with their favorite stuffed animals at naptime, then waking refreshed to […]
Category: Grace
Lessons from an amusement park
It’s coming. If it hasn’t happened yet, it will soon. It happens every Christmas season. You’ve shopped and wrapped and decorated and baked. You’ve been holly jolly and rocked around the Christmas tree until your head is spinning. You’ve made every effort to capture the spirit of the season and be present for every sweet […]
A glorious exchange – what we can learn from the angels in the nativity story
It was solemn business. With Christmas around the corner, Mom and Dad brought us four kids into the living room and had us sit down on the sofa. “We are going to draw names,” Mom explained. “There are four names in here, all folded up, one for each of you. And the name you pick […]
You’ve got mail – what we can learn from the shepherds in the nativity story
Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life – well, valuable, but small – and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it or because I haven’t been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn’t it be the […]
Musings on Jonah, Part Two: God’s provisions, the lovely and the not-so-lovely
[Continued from Musings on Jonah, Part One: Is it right for you to be angry?] Two things I love most from this passage: God is always teaching us and God is always providing for us. He is teaching Jonah here. He used the example of the plant that made Jonah so happy when it kept […]
On free returns and redemption
A couple weeks ago, I ordered my first pair of Doc Martens. A 90s teen to the core, I always adored Docs, but alas! I never owned a pair. And now, at age 44 with very flat feet, I find that I need some extra arch support. So I figured, why not cushion my aging […]
A new song
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The music blared from the store’s speakers, determined to get us shoppers in the Christmas spirit. Kids whined and wailed from the prisons of their parents’ carts, determined to get the toys they wanted. My cart itself was determined to veer left, no matter how hard I […]
The little quads that could: a lesson in compassion
The story has been told many times in many ways by many great storytellers, and we all know it well. A little railroad engine meant for pulling cars on and off the switches agrees to take on a monumental task, one far too great for its capabilities. But this little engine is determined to complete […]
Fresh hope for weary vessels
We walked down the aisle full of binders, searching for just the right one to house my latest writings. “It needs to be a really nice one, since it will hold something so important to you,” my then-boyfriend urged. “Get the best one they have!” And so I did. It was, after all, just a […]
Slow and steady
I would hear her calling me through the intercom system. So I would put down the basketball I was furiously dribbling or the book I was currently devouring or the homework I was trudging through, and I would go to help my grandma. You see, Grandma Rosey had Parkinson’s Disease, and she lived with us […]
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