For some reason, I started off this season optimistic. Maybe it had something to do with the rain. After watching the crops wither and die, the ground crack under the unrelenting sun and scrambling to get hay for winter, rain … Continue reading
We’re reading Unstuck: Your Life. God’s Design. Real Change. by Arnie Cole and Michael Ross and are finally on to chapter three. Yay! Sorry about the unintentional break there, but I really enjoyed this chapter. We all know the Bible … Continue reading
Lat week, we started discussing Unstuck and I shared some of my faith struggles. In a way, chapter two is a second introduction as we meet the second author and how he got stuck in his faith, even while playing … Continue reading
We’re reading Unstuck: Your Life. God’s Design. Real Change. by Arnie Cole and Michael Ross in Sunday School and I decided it might be nice to discuss it here. It is absolutely not necessary to read the book to participate … Continue reading
Where is God when it hurts? This is the pdf version of a talk my husband gave at church. It is free to download and to share. We only ask that you share the link to this page, not directly … Continue reading
Where is God when it hurts? At His easel. This is my husband, sharing some of our journey and our heart for Tiggy’s House at church last week. You can go to the next segment by clicking the link in … Continue reading
I walk out to the heifers and the grass crunches under my feet. Everything around me looks like it has finally given up and succumbed to the drought. Last week, we had three days of rain predicted. Three days of … Continue reading
The week of Tiggy’s birthday, we decided to take a vacation. Time to get away, time to not think of the little boy who wouldn’t be celebrating his birthday with us anymore, time to meet some of the many wonderful … Continue reading
My little four year old LE, I think, has been teaching me something about prayer. A little about patience. A little about the faith of a child. A little about thankfulness. But mostly about prayer. At bedtime, you see, we … Continue reading
The baby naps, Bear and Mouse watch a movie, Bug and LE are having a picnic, the house is quiet. The stillness of the house makes the churning in my stomach grow louder. I wander a bit from sweeping the … Continue reading
I homeschool my children on a small hobby farm in rural Nebraska and write about life more abundantly, from the joy of a baby's smile to the almost unbearable grief of losing a son while seeking beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of the spirit of despair (Isaiah 61:3)
