Like a Stone
The family and I visited a wonderful little rock shop this weekend and I found some lovely new treasures. As I admired my new stash of stones and jewelry, I thought about all the things that must come together to create such beauty and diversity: temperature, pressure, elements, and refinement. These stones take millennia to form, and meanwhile, people are born, people die, governments rise and fall. And the earth keeps turning as it will until it does not.
Wherever the Wind Blows
I'm going to share with you how God reaffirmed to me that His hand is on all things... using a spider.
Snow with a Chance of Wonder
He didn't care about the odds. He didn't care that it might not be. He cared about what COULD be. It was going to snow and it was going to be awesome!
Self-Care is Great But Soul-Care is Better
Treating yourself well because grace and goodwill to others is like a rechargeable battery that, after several charges, no longer holds a charge?
Reviving Ritual
How differently we view the act of bathing now! I know for me, anyway, bathing is an act that I have exactly 3.2 minutes to complete before a member of my household (including cats), realizes I've sneaked away.
Mary or Martha?
We have a lot on our plates as SAHM's. And our faith, while at the very core of our desire to serve our families, also requires a delicate balance of the necessary personas of BOTH of those infamous biblical sisters, Mary and Martha