Sometimes you don’t need to say anything.  Sometimes you just look up and see amazing.  If you pay attention unspoken truth is spoken everywhere.  If you pay attention, you can see God. God’s glory is on tour in the skies, God-craft on exhibit across the horizon. Madame Day holds classes every morning, Professor Night lectures… Read More Unspoken Truth is Spoken Everywhere

So I’m the Mom who almost tried to drop her kid off at preschool on a Teacher Workday when there was NO SCHOOL.  I am the Mom who had shoes on herself and her kid, who had his lunch packed for lunch bunch and was ready to head out the door when I remembered to grab… Read More What Is It? – Gathering the Manna God Gives You in the Unexpected of Your Day

It’s hitting me… the 2 1/2 weeks of sleeping only 2-4 hours a night… well, really, it’s been more than 2 1/2 weeks of lacking sleep, because it is not like you are sleeping well at 39 weeks or 38 weeks or 37 weeks pregnant.  This exhaustion is added to a very challenging several weeks of… Read More The God Who Sees the Momma

A year ago…  I lay in bed with my husband trying to hold back the tears.  It wasn’t working.  Life was just not turning out like I had thought it would. There is pain in every part, disappointment in each space that makes up the whole of my existence… my calling, life as a mother,… Read More When You are Feeling Done with the Promises of God

You never want to find yourself hanging over a toilet hours after you buy a house… but that is where I found myself a little over a year ago, so sick to my stomach that it literally was making me ill.   We had just closed on a home… a home that in so many… Read More 4 Things I am Learning about How to Live into a Bad Decision

Recently I found myself in a familiar story in Scripture.  The story of the Rich Young Ruler in Luke 18.  It is one I know well. A man comes to Jesus asking what he must do to inherit eternal life.  Jesus tells him, “Follow the commandments.”  The man’s response, “Yep, got that down!”  Then Jesus… Read More Threading a Camel Through a Needle’s Eye

He looks up at me and says, “You look pretty Mom.” I chuckle to myself.  I know what I look like.  Hair half curled on one side, half crazy frizz on the other.  A clump of hair sticking straight up on the top of my head in a clip, waiting to be curled.  I’m in… Read More Beauty Defined by The Beholder

I awake to NOISE… kids that get up way too early for my liking.  And though I try to get up even earlier (5:30 a.m. gives me maybe 30 minutes of silence) the state of growing another human right now has made these efforts to awake that early almost impossible.  This morning, even getting up… Read More Rejoicing in ALL Circumstances… Rethinking How I Live into My Not-What-I-Would-Want Mornings

Life has been full, Little One, and so I haven’t paid much attention to you.  It has felt full of disorientation, confusion, angst over many things.  It has me somewhat buried in the land of dwelling on and mulling over things too confusing for me to understand. So as I drive, consumed with anxiety and concerns… Read More Tiny Kicks… Nudges to See the Gifts in Life that are All Around

I have been preparing a Bible Study talk on Romans 16… have you read Romans 16 lately?  It is a list of names, most of which I cannot even pronounce. What do you do with a list of names?!  Okay Lord, you are going to have to surprise me with something to share here! So… Read More What a List of Names Tells You about the Significance of Your Life