I am so thankful and blessed and my heart is feeling full ~ What a richly-colored, brilliant experience life has been. On Friday I turned 24 and I can’t help but reflect on the marvelous people I’ve known (and know), beautiful places I’ve lived and visited, difficulties I’ve learned from and been shaped by, answered […]
“The Lord is Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” (2 Corinthians 3:17) Recently the Lord has brought my mind to rest on these words from Scripture: “…where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.“ Freedom. Freedom from the laws of sin and death. Freedom from bondage. Freedom to […]
The God who sees me. I was alone in the car and feeling the utter aloneness sink deep into my spirit. It was perhaps the most alone I’ve felt – with burdens my own to carry, persistent sickness, spiritual weariness, exhausted from long and tiring (sometimes aimless-feeling) days, while my husband was overseas. I sat […]
A place called home… via …where we wake and rise to greet the day, filled with promise. Two by two little ones’ eyes flutter open. They’re invited to dress, to eat, to begin – the youngest asking eagerly, “What are we doing today, Mommy?” A day in the home brings a dynamic blend of the […]
A couple of days ago I saw this great pin on pinterest…I had been looking for an excuse to buy a Smash book (love the idea! you can use any type of book, or find a Smash book for about $13 at a craft supply store) and a simple, yet meaningful Christmas gift for my […]
We don’t have normal tv. It was one of those things that we couldn’t afford that turned into a thing we chose not to afford. I am so thankful that God works through all these things. Anyway, instead of tv, we have Netflix which we pay something like $9 a month for. I am unashamed […]
“Not by strength or by might, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.” {Zechariah 4:6} As I read these words today, I was so struck by them. I rolled them over and over in my mind, then on my tongue…they are beautiful but strikingly so, and kind of painful the way they strike […]
[Reposting this from last year...because I need the reminding! Hope you will enjoy...] Kaya is almost 20 months old now, and in those 20 months I have made a lot of changes to become a full-time wife and mother who spends most of my time at home, taking care of my family. In that short […]
I came upon this passage earlier this week in my personal devotions. Jesus’ words have stuck with me since then… “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But […]
“Mama, I miss you! Mama, I need you!” My 2-year-old’s creative attempts to boycott naptime pull on the heartstrings. She’s yelling from her crib. I’ve fallen for it before – her sweet cries luring me to her bedside rescue. If I pick her up, she doesn’t need me (or comforting) – she “needs” what she […]
