I despised those first, hundreds of years old trees, cut in early spring. We moved here because we loved nature…. Not because we wanted to see developers cut it down. But a city growing, and prime land, doesn’t appreciate the mother deer and two fawns I saw last year, eating apples from the wild tree, planted […]
Jet lagged from my sixteen hour flight from China, I get a call that our newest addition is having serious behavior issues. Our home group is scheduled for Saturday, along with basketball, homeschooling work piling up, and this article was due five days ago. Seasons past weren’t this hectic. In fact, there were days when I […]
When my brother and I payed for Ancestry.com’s DNA test for our father, we never imagined the shock that would come to us. My grandmother came straight from Norway, and yet, she went to the grave boasting that she was 100% Scandinavian. Little did she know….that was a lie. In fact, test results came back that […]
Soapy hands, sudsy heart, bubbling over to hear His voice. Stuck between running water and dirty dishes…In more ways than one. “What if your in the middle of a miracle and don’t even know it?” Those words prick my spirit. I stop, reflect, recount what God has been doing recently, in the days and months previously. “Without […]
“He never talks to me”,”I just don’t hear His voice “,”I get silence every time I try to listen”. These phrases and more, people share when I talk to them about hearing God’s voice. Some say, “Well, God could just speak whenever He wants. Why stop, be still, and invite the voice of God?” The best […]
Just a small piece of me could have imagined what a disability felt like. Bronchitis; fighting to stand, serve, take care of those around us. And when you’ve lost something your used to, have something taken that was a regular part of your person-hood, you grow weaker… But you can also relate and associate with a […]