I don’t know about you, but these days I’m clinging desperately to anything that feels like hope. Christmas decorations up before Thanskgiving? Normally no but what the heck this year, it’s 2020 and the halls were decked. Got the shopping done early. Prayed for snow. Apparently, as I unloaded my bag of Christmas goodies at […]

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A liturgy of feeling the carpet below my socked feet and bowing in worship listening to YouTube releasing all to Almighty God as I breathe out. Exhalation. The solace of slowly dicing onions sliding them off the knife into melted butter to simmer quiet music soothing preparing hot soup to nourish my family. Creation. The […]

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Raise your hand if meal planning has caused you problems. If you’ve tried every method in the book to stay organized and list meals, buy the ingredients for those meals and then cook them on certain days of the week. But failed. Over and over again.  There are dozens of brilliant meal planning strategies out […]

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I was a plant killer.  I’m not sure how it became a standing joke between my husband and I, but he thought it funny enough to buy me a snake plant once, because the label read something like, “Can be neglected for weeks at a time.” Sadly, the snake plant didn’t make it long in […]

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Once an optimist, always an optimist, I think. The hard parts of life keep surprising me. I think I subconsciously believe that if I would just heal completely, or if my husband would just get his dream job, or if my kids would grow out of tattling or whining, that everything would be peachy keen […]

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Nobody ever told me not to raise my hands in a worship service.  But a.) I never got moved enough emotionally to want to and b.) one word: distraction.  We’ve all seen the parodies by Tim Hawkins and John Crist about church worship. We’ve seen the side eyes glanced at that one lady who dares […]

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Trending: #minimalism.  Declutter. Donate. Repeat.  Best decision my husband and I made two years ago. Yes.  However, in some seasons of life, stuff piles up, your energy or your priorities keep you from handling how much you own and you find yourself trying to manage the clutter. #reality.  When you are trying to survive, sometimes […]

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I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. Phil. 3:13-14 A hundred years ago, when lumberjacks cut down trees, they floated them downstream in […]

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The drapes hang still at the window Gray skies peeking through the sheers I sip my morning coffee And my heart rests. Not many hours of sleep last night But God can overcome Even weary eyes. Clutter in every room Things where they don’t belong. My to-do list runs down the page But I have […]

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