Over 25 years ago, a friend invited me to church – over and over and over again. I’d told her, I’d bent to Baptist – and just didn’t think I could bend to this new church. It would probably break me. In retrospect, I was probably scared of something so very different. I was still hungry for more of God. … Continue reading →
“And I will give them one heart and one purpose: to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants” (Jeremiah 32:39 NLT). There’s beauty and grace when you meet someone following hard their dream who invites you along and encourages the development of your dream. Alisa Hope Wagner is one of those people. … Continue reading →
“Open up my eyes in wonderAnd show me who You are.” ~ Housefire, “Build My Life” I should have posted a note last week here that said, “Gone Hiking.” My husband decided to take some time off work – and he wanted to hike – so instead of working with the blog and its community, I went hiking. My Forever … Continue reading →
On a schools-out, Summer-time morning, I drove past a badling of ducks moving from their morning paddling to their mid-morning activity of foraging and preening. They seem to live in perpetual holiday-living mode. Of course, I wasn’t thinking about the coyotes I hear howling at night in the morning sunlight. Or the foxes that sneak into the backyard chicken coops … Continue reading →
Last week I found myself sitting in my own little ash pile. Blue-deviled is an apt way to describe it. Let me tell you, it’s not only ten-year-olds who get the blues. But there I was! In the middle of a month of celebrating answered prayers, and people I love, I was in a battle of the blues. I can’t … Continue reading →
The easiest and quickest way to clear a room of my sons in my house, regardless of age, is to talk about the day they were born. Really, though, they don’t want to hear any of my stories. This month, we have a 14-16-18-18-27 Party, celebrating two sons’ birthdays and three grandsons’ birthdays. I could tell you all the stories … Continue reading →
I love celebrating birthdays – one-year-old birthdays to 90+ birthdays. I love filling the table with favorite dishes and desserts, considering the table detail for the little ones and the big ones, the celebrant and the celebrators. Children’s gifts? I love the whimsy of finding the right gift for the right child. Can I tell you how exciting it is … Continue reading →
Maybe it’s the graduation celebration, the birthday season Spring is to our family, maybe it was the walk around Nanny and Papaw’s House, or sitting around and talking much with so many of the grandsons and great-grandsons Papaw and Nanny loved so much – but Father’s Day is coming – and Papaw’s legacy is how he taught through example his … Continue reading →
There’s a barn on the drive to my house on the little mountain that I have loved from a distance, that my camera has loved, too. I have wanted to slip through those white doors and smell the memories of leather harnesses, manure and old timber, see the dust motes in sunbeams, and search out the layers of corners to … Continue reading →
Starting the first day of Spring, change starts. One by one, each boy turns older. It keeps up until the first day of Autumn – that’s just how these boys’ birthdays fall. Each birthday, God says, “Change is coming.” This coming change is heralded by the flowers in the garden – a beautiful reminder of easy and hard changes coming. … Continue reading →
