Building Grateful Nests Rooted in Him
A couple of years ago, I gave my daughter a storybook about women of the bible. We read a children’s storybook bible, watched movies about Moses and Joseph, did crafts for David and Goliath but we were really missing the women. I wanted my daughter (and my son) to know women like Deborah and Ruth
Happy Day After Thanksgiving! Hopefully, Y’all had a wonderful day of family and friends and football. We ate a lot. Enough to make me swear off food, which was a total lie. I lasted all of four hours before diving in for round two (okay, maybe three) (don’t judge). Anyone else? We are picking right
Almost a decade ago, I had finally saved enough money to purchase my dream dining room table. The one I’d been drooling over for years. The one I’d planned a million events around in my daydreams about how our family and life would be that glorious someday when we had children and neighbors and a
Last week, our little family fell victim to a random, ordinary flu-like virus. High fevers, coughing, headaches, loss of appetites, and Momma forcing us to drink when our throats felt they were made of razor blades. Mommas can be so mean. As I was stripping germ-infested sheets off of beds, I heard, “You asked for
Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand. ~Zechariah 4:10 Oh, November. Welcome, friend. Bring your cool weather, warm fires, chilled hands gripping steaming cups of hot chocolate topped with marshmallows. Dress us in soft sweaters, tall boots, full scarves.
This month, I am working through Melanie Shankle’s online study, Church of the Small Things. I devoured her book in two days and with every page, I thought, AMEN. Her introduction in the book and the first session in the study centers on the feeding of the 5,000 with five loaves and two fish. We
An email just popped up on my screen as I sat down to write this. Subject: In the mood for some gratitude? Why, yes. Yes, I am! And then it proceeded to list ten things you can be grateful for AND BUY from their website. Sooooo… I feel all kinds of annoyed by that. Although
I remember, after my daughter was born, chatting with a friend about having another child. We both agreed we wanted more than one but, well, we’re infertile so it might not happen. More than anything, I remember saying this, “The longing for the second one is almost worst than the first. Because now I know.”
For several weeks, I had been deep in the first three chapters of Romans. Up to my eyeballs in storing up God’s wrath and being given over to a depraved mind and doing the thing we want not to do. It was a lot. At the same time, my kids were doing their absolute best
My company planned a big ole celebration for our 20th anniversary across our offices scattered hither and yon. Tents, champagne, shrimp, you know, the usual (sarcasm font). Our CEO chose to attend our party and as we rode the escalator down to the tents on the lawn, he began asking me about our latest infertility