the problem with surrounding yourself with truth tellers is they tell you the truth. i’ve been giving paper a sideways glance and walking into the kitchen to do the dishes. i would start to type a blog post and then delete the words not liking […]
i forget that the most compelling thing about me is jesus. i forget. in the forgetting i lose myself and become ungrateful, confused. am i a good mother? it is because jesus has wrought my iron will in his gentle hands. is my marriage remarkable? […]
the countdown to summer has begun. somehow. i’m confused how we go from buried, too cold to step outside, to easter morning on the beach, toes in sand. but alas, it is so. and i for one will hold my spinning head and say thank […]
i heard good things today. richard foster praised silence for writers. bret lott shared that we will never master writing because it is filled with self-doubt and loneliness. anne lamott said that writing takes much longer than you think it will and remains a struggle […]
the difficult parts of life don’t come with instruction booklets. it’s just us, hammering out the days we’re given with flesh and blood. it can be a messy business. add to the mix the odd desire to share that process with people on the internet […]
it was a gas station. we’d driven hours with three kids close and now one of them had to use the bathroom. joshua was pumping gas and i thought i’d just send her in by herself. i wanted to be done. i didn’t want to […]
when the dust settles near the table legs again, the ordinary life can change into a meaningless one. in a twinkling it goes from flight to plodding. at times like these i look for a star to hitch my wagon to. a business plan, a […]
it’s late. we’re under blankets in our cold bedroom. joshua’s reading and i’m remembering the milkweed plant i saw in a garden at mazzy’s school. we don’t know it but clouds are gathering right over our heads. we don’t know that we’ll wake up to […]
when the if:gathering sold out in 42 minutes, it sort of threw me. there are writers that i’ve come to enjoy online and some are promoting if:, so i decided i’d go. the day before registration they opened it early to their email subscribers, […]
each night the starry sky waits above us. whether it’s obscured by city light or goes unseen by eyes that won’t look up. it’s waiting there. we drove the kids to southern ohio and saw the stars again for the first time. we took them […]