Every year at Christmas our kids get my husband and I a jigsaw puzzle. This year Santa pitched in and we actually ended up with three puzzles--birds, the beach and kites--our three favorite things. A great Friday night date for my husband and …
On Faith
Living the Season Well Goes Viral {sorta}
Dear friends, I have been so grateful for the response to my book Living the Season Well-Reclaiming Christmas.** It's a little bit amazing to me and exciting as well. All the readers that are finding the message about slowing down and simplifying …
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
"holiness is the chief beauty of grace." Andrew Murray, Abiding in Christ I've run out of any original thoughts this week, my friends. They seem to have all run out from my brain through my fingertips while I talk about the little book I …
Why I Stopped Having ‘Quiet Time’ {for all the right reasons}
“…the resolving of the conflict between sacred and the secular (or, better said, the repairing of the damage done by divorcing them) has been billed as the major problem of modern theology.” -Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, …
When the World is Broken Along With my Heart
I hardly know where to begin these days, to write down my heart's cry and soul's sigh. The world is splintering, shattering it seems, on every side. All I can do is re-center myself with a song. Thank you to my friend Laurie Klein for the …
The Body of Memories-September 11th
I met a friend recently for lunch at a park near my home, desperate for her company and encouragement. Nerves were frayed, emotions out of whack, reserve tanks anything but reserved. I apologized in advance for my undone condition. As I attempted …
Begin Again {a #poem}
September's singular day arrives with the turning of many pages, paper or otherwise. Limbs of another rich and growing year branch upward, leading to vistas bright and unknown. I climb, grateful for handholds, eyes on the open, azure sky. Did Eden's …