This week, school began and my life is a crazy mess. Becoming scheduled and organized makes a mess before it turns around to smooth living. It’s a jumble of activities, lists and coordinating agendas. And today, I’m overcome with emotions. Yesterday, I felt inadequate to write. What words can I say that can even come close … Continue reading
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How Can Our Life Shape Others?
Sister Baldwin sat across the aisle from me. She wore a blue dress with small white daisies. Her white hair was pulled into a tight bun and her Bible rested on her lap. She is imprinted in my mind. She taught me the stories of Moses, Noah and Ruth. The flannel graphs laid across the board and coloring … Continue reading
How Are You Showing Up?
Hey friends, Some days are just exhausting, right? This last year has been turned upside down and inside out. We have had this collective exhaustion of things being thrown at us. I picture it being some what like an automatic ball server. At first I could catch the ball being thrown my way. I tossed … Continue reading
When We Try Something New and Fail
We finally planted our garden. It’s been rainy, wet and my schedule has been swamped with events but we finally got it in. It’s a relief and my place of retreat. I fence myself in, plant myself on the edge of the raised beds and dig in. Dave came over while I was planting the … Continue reading
And here I am again…
Have you ever turned a corner and found yourself back in a familiar place? Gardening season — This is our 3rd summer here in our new home. For the first year, the extent of my gardening was potted tomato plants on my deck. Last year, we tilled a garden and planted seeds but rascally rabbits, … Continue reading
What I Learned in January and A Happy Birthday to Mom!
Dave nonchalantly mentioned today that we have now finished 1/12 of this year and I don’t really know how I feel about that. But now that we’ve checked off 31 days for January it’s time to link up with Emily Freeman over at Chatting at the Sky and share what we learned this month. So here we … Continue reading
What we can do when the unexpected comes
Even at my age of 44, I’m still afraid of the dark. I’m not afraid in my own house because everything around me is familiar. I’m like a bat fleeting through the house, checking on all that goes bump in the night. But put me in a tent out in the woods or an open field or … Continue reading
Tripping Over Typeset 