noticing and responding to God in our everyday life
I leave on Thursday to attend Allume. It is a conference for women who are bloggers and writers. It seems surreal that I am going. Can not wait to hear the speakers and meet a wonderful community of bloggers I’ve connected with in the last few months. I’m rooming with some women I have only […]
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The mid 1950s. The beginning. Married 57 years. Pastoring for 56 years. Three children. Eight grandchildren. I’m honored to interview David and Helen Clark. As I wrote yesterday, our paths crossed when we lived in Seattle. And our journey has been richer because of it. Read the introduction here. Join me in enjoying the life […]
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“When I’m 40 I want to be a woman of full of joy. I hope my life has been marked by generosity and compassion. May I be a mom who is fully engaged with her children. A wife who loves her husband with abandon.” So reads a journal entry I wrote in my late twenties. […]
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A Timbered Choir by Wendell Berry Whatever is foreseen in joy Must be lived out from day to day. Vision held open in the dark By our ten thousand days of work. Harvest will fill the barn: for that The hand must ache, the face must sweat. And yet no leaf or grain is filled […]
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Melanie is attending Allume Conference next week. Jesse, Sarah Mae’s husband, hacked her blog with a challenge to all husbands of women attending. Write on her post on how the blogging community and/or the Allume conference has impacted your wife for good. (This is Melanie, hacking the hack to include a link to it here) […]
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“This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.” Isaiah 30:15 Can you carve out space this weekend for rest? Not a zoning out kind of rest, but a rest that […]
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Words. Last week they gushed forth. As if a trap door in a deep well was opened. Flowing with force. Flowing with purpose. Hardly able to contain their excitement at being released. They had stories of sorrow and pain. But in being released into the stream of living water, the daylight shown another side. The […]
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A few nights ago my husband said, “you look at life through a microscope” “i look at life through a telescope” Truer words have never been spoken. When I look at Fall, I see the tiny acorn. The last green leaf. When I look at you, I see a tear forming in your eye before […]
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This week we’ve been reflecting on the shorter days of Fall. With that the natural rhythm inviting us to Sabbath rest. One of the main components of Sabbath is feasting. Sharing a meal with family and friends. Remembering God’s provision. Letting in nourishment- for our bodies and souls. My friend Kristi is graciously providing […]
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This week I’ve been feeling “off”. Struggling for words that match my heart’s beat. I have thoughts as to why rumbling around in my head. But for today, God says “Rest”. Will I enter via this Sabbath door I’ve been peeking into? God says “Don’t strive.” Will I trust that a day off on my […]
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Halfway! We have made it halfway through writing and reading everyday in October. Thank you for taking this journey with me. Halfway seems like a good time for reflection. And Sabbath remembering is a practice that makes space for reflection. Longing for moments in our busyness that remind us of who we are. Of who […]
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The earth wobbles on it’s axis. Moving us closer to the sun. And then farther. In October it’s the Southern Hemisphere’s turn to be the favorite. Away we go. The shortening daylights confirm science. We may resist. We may welcome. We can not change it. God’s rhythm of life. Seasons. Revealing the facets and purposes […]
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And this button if you would like to read last years:
