noticing and responding to God in our everyday life
“Oh No!!” I exclaim opening the oven door. From the next room my husband asks what is wrong. Peering into the oven all I can think is that these cookies look nothing like the Pinterest picture. Somehow my chocolate candy center has oozed out. The round balls have flattened. […]
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This year the ornaments have moved a foot up the tree. “Don’t get a puppy around the holidays.” Looking at our tree you would know we threw that advice out the window this Thanksgiving. And so this puppy’s presence has my uncle’s ceramic angel tightly sharing a branch with a glittery golden ball. My son’s […]
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I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Psalm 27:13-14 Advent. Expectant waiting. Longing. Preparing. A gift of no compare. Waiting with you. I love my weekend link […]
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Last night we drove to meet my in laws for dinner. They were up from South Carolina, visiting a treasured great aunt who is most likely drawing her last breaths here on earth. From the back seat were exclamations of “Wow. Look at those lights!” I smile at his unbridled excitement that Christmas lights bring. […]
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“Dada? How does my face look like you? Although a couple of years ago, this conversation surfaces in my mind from time to time. I listened in from the kitchen. Our newly turned four-year wrestling in his own way with preschool conversations. My husband replied, “Well. We both have dark brown eyes.” My son eagerly […]
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For hours this Thanksgiving afternoon, we sat at our dining room table. The “one of my first purchases out of college” table. From This End Up. Makers of furniture sturdy and indestructible. It’s 25 years proudly show. Each scratch remembering stories. Each dent a reminder of the life we have lived. Thank you for our […]
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The chairlift sitting empty over bare land, patches of snow here and there. Cabins and condos with darkness in their windows. No sounds of cars around. They all confirm my husband and I are vacationing in off-season of our mountain get away. Although not being used for it’s intended purpose, it invites rest and peace […]
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The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. Isaiah 35:1-2(a) Be glad. Rejoice. Blossom. Burst. Bloom. Shout. Don’t these action verbs paint such a vivid picture? And not the things we would […]
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If you have been reading my blog the last few weeks, you may have picked up that my words feel dry. No. That’s not quite it. More of an uncertainty in what direction my words want to pick up and travel to. Today is also the first day of being in the mountains. Patches of […]
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Stay. I’ve cried out to each of my six. Stay. Hold on. Willing my body to not let them go. Stay. Where is warm and inviting. Where I can nurture your life. But they’ve gone. Each time. My will,not strong enough. Over years. He expands my soul. This twisty windy path we’ve walked. He shows […]
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First Frost. Cold enough for the stunning crystal formation. Warm enough for it be gone in a few hours. The coming of cold enough for it to snow. The now and not yet, on the cusp of winter. I see myself as a teenager. Laying in bed in my cozy bedroom. Seeing the early frost […]
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“I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.” Psalm 130:5 I love Scripture. I love how it is alive. I love how I can feel distant one moment and then reading engulfs me in His love and compassion and truth. Earlier this week God showed me how […]
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