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Summer Reading List

To be completely honest, I wish I could spend more time reading!  I love curling up with good books and taking words in…but in my life those times just don’t happen enough. Time is limited and I’m trying to manage it better.  My reading goal is a minimum one hour a day even if it’s just moments snuck in here and there…even while waiting in … Continue reading →

Five Minute Friday ~ Messenger

I remember, as a little girl, sitting at my small metal folding table with the red-flowered top, writing short stories and taping them to my mother’s dining room wall. I was play-writing, or writing for play, whichever way… I just wanted to write. Writing down thoughts has a way of clearing my mind. If it’s … Continue reading →

A Dream Coming True…

This week has been months …really years…in the planning. Our daughter is graduating from high school. It’s surreal and all-too-real at the same time…somewhat like a dream. She and I have spent hours gathering and compiling moments captured on film for her Senior class board. But this simple board can’t hold all that we cherish of this … Continue reading →

Why we need a superhero.

“Matt, come eat your breakfast.” Wearing his Batman shirt and Tigger/Pooh blanket cape,  he responds, “I can’t…. I need to save the world!” “Well, you can save the world after you eat breakfast.” After slurping down the last of his milk, he jumps from his seat, flies into the living room and exclaims: “Okay, Mom, I’m going … Continue reading →

An uncovered gift… a story of faithfulness.

Almost 23 years ago I uncovered a great gift.  I was helping my mother sort through her childhood home.  We were emptying out, tossing trash and cherishing treasure. My mother’s mother died before I was born.  My mother gave me part of her name and mom always said I was like her.  So while going through a stack … Continue reading →

Our Sweet Spot of Rhythm…God’s Love and Peace

For the last month, I’ve moved from one event to the next… telling myself, “Just get through Mother’s Day.” We went from Easter to in(RL), from in(RL) to Mom’s Night Out and then slid into Mother’s Day with everything biting at my heels in between. After sharing at our church on Mother’s Day, we headed … Continue reading →

My story of failing…and I’m okay with it.

This past weekend, we hosted the (in)RL conference at our church.  It was a weekend of amazing stories in the messy and the beautiful, intermingled with grace. I sat with close friends along with new friends.  We listened to women broken and wounded, yet redeemed and grace-filled — women with stories of community.  My heart swelled with … Continue reading →