2 Peter 1: 5-7 “So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others …” I’ve spent my entire life in church. I vividly remember […]
“We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you — your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust. So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character.”—2 Peter 1:4-5 (The Message […]
I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God’s straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your […]
I watched as my husband, Alex, navigated the excavator. This was a first for him, but he was determined. Using the backhoe he tried again and again to dig up the large chunks of root buried deep in the ground. Why was this so difficult? Well, the difficulty came in trying to dredge up roots […]
For me, summer is all about relaxation, playing catch up, and filling my days with all of the things I haven’t been able to do in what seems like forever. For you, your job may not pause for a summer break, but you can still attest to the fact that summer is a time to […]
There have been several times in my life where I’ve felt like our family would’ve been a better fit in another decade or even century. A time when things were simpler and people took pride in their work. A time where doors were left unlocked and Sundays were spent visiting with family members. When time […]
I love music. Something about it just speaks deep into my heart in ways that poems, sermons, and other means just don’t reach. (That being said, don’t expect me to show my appreciation for music in public ways. My singing has that delicate quality of being able to crack mirrors and frighten small children.) But […]
Wallpaper: I HATE it, I know I just said hate. My son would gasp if he knew I wrote those words for all to see. I just spent one month stripping the many layers of wallpaper off of my kitchen walls. The previous owners thought it to be a good idea to paint over, what […]
Life can throw us all not just one, but sometimes a number of curve balls. One of those for my husband and I was a diagnosis of dual infertility. Leading up to that moment, and even past the blessing of adoption, I went through a series of rises and falls in my emotions. You name […]
I used to write just as much as I breathed—or at least that’s what it felt like. I would go to bed with my next blog post in mind. I would often find myself scribbling notes across a beat up notebook when something came to mind. Blogging was my small corner of the world that […]
