Confessions of a not-always-so-gentle-wife

It was a week of victories.  Battling the flu and trying to keep a good attitude, but (mostly?) winning.  Embracing the unknown, living out ...

Choose Thankful Submission...and Restore Childlike Wonder and Joy

A reminder every morning to value our union It was Saturday afternoon, and I had had a rough morning. There was some tension between me and ...

When the Mundane Saps Your Life...and Needing a 'Gratitude Adjustment'

Source I've been feeling a little down, emotionally and physically, and the mundane has seemed well, very mundane!  My students have bot...

Knowing You Need the Forgiveness He Offers

On this day last year, I was thanking the Lord for my new husband It's Maundy Thursday and I feel unprepared for this Easter weekend.  Y...

It was a {mostly} beautiful day: what to do with expectations

Our anniversary came and went, and I enjoyed just about every minute.  The moments I could have done without were the ones where my sin natu...

What's that Smell?

Holiday groceries are bulging in my fridge as we prepare for family coming to visit us (yes, we will be hosting in our cute little apartment...

Great Expectations

Okay, so I've never read the above book....shame on me....but I have done my share of expecting....Putting expectations on myself, other...

Seeking to....Know Him?

It seems like it could go without saying.  We seek the Lord in order to know Him....but do we?  Do I?   When I start struggling with discont...

Reminders from a Hard Day

We all want the good days.  The days when our souls fly high like a kite on a blustery day.  We (or is it only me?) like to feel confident, ...

Compassion Starts at Home

Please, if you would be so kind, take a peak over here  at my article posted today on compassion, at the Letters To My Sisters blog. Perhaps...

Will I {choose to} be filled?

I woke with a grumbling heart.  Unfortunate, as my sweet husband patiently read Scripture, and we prayed.  We fed the farm animals while my ...

The Deadly Sin of Discontent

Hello friends! I have recently become a contributor on a wonderful website, Letters to My Sisters , whose vision is that through 'eterna...

It's All About the Gospel, Anyway...

Where do you have your best thoughts?  Those little whispers from heaven that sneak into your mind and give you shocking clarity?  I have be...

Elusive Rest...the Who and Why...

What is it on your list that seems hardest to get to?   Is it the laundry, the bills, that important phone call, or the important date with ...

GPS God?

"Things don't seem to be going the way I expected" ....those were my words to a girlfriend last week, as I mulled over some of...

I am Loved...as are YOU...

It's funny how something someone says, or does, can stick out and make a normal day better than average...and it's those things I re...

Water to Wine...

      And so it was, a day of water, bitter water, turned to wine, in the light of God's grace and mercy.   We studied Naomi and Ruth to...

His ways are higher...

I'm reading a great book, recommended by a dear friend who you can find  here , and also by my love.  It is challenging me, which I expe...

Dancing in the Rain (or Snow...)

I think I am learning...hopefully!  We, my Pastor-love and I, took dance lessons in the fall.  We didn't always do it perfectly, but the...

Choosing Gratitude

Why does this seem like such an impossible feat? Why do our hearts, or rather, why does my heart so often default to resentment over gratit...