I almost missed it. No, not the grande display of wondrous, media worthy miracles. Not the heightened emotion or perfect pictures able to display for all to see. Not the life-changing trip, newest purchase, or that moment creating envy, jealousy, or greed…. But the small and the still, and the quiet and the insignificant. Those are […]
He sounds like a seal barking. Deep, low, “whoop whoop”, coming from his mouth, as the weather doesn’t seem to know what it wants from us, yet…. Sun and clouds, rain, the rays. And who knows what’s coming tomorrow? And when our life has no clear forecast, when we can’t play God and pin our plans […]
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 […]