The Hope of Suffering

This morning I listened to a sermon by Brandon Booth at Christ Community Church. He did a good job. It helped to solidify some things I’ve been kicking around. Romans 5:1-5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our...

Book Update

I’ve recently been taken to task for not providing an update on how writing is going. It’s slow! Frankly, self-publishing is a lot of work. Writing is a lot of work–it’s fun, but it’s taken far more time than I expected to get this far....

Looking Forward

Lately we’ve been talking to our children about death. Yesterday one of our family members passed away. Earlier this year one of my husband’s family died. It’s been a good opportunity to process through these ideas of grief and death with our...

Christmas Musings

I’ve been thinking that I ought to write some sort of Christmas post–if for no other reason than to get my heart refocused. Unfortunately, I feel more Scrooge-like than normal this year . . . health challenges, family issues, and loss have left me feeling...

To Press On

I’ve been thinking about these two quotes in connection with each other: “I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately … I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life … to put to rout all that was not life and not when...
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