Blooming Where You’re Planted

It has been a crazy past several weeks. I had a couple weeks where I felt so much better than usual that I tried to catch up on 3 years worth of neglected projects and then I’ve had the past month where I’m not sleeping and barely functional. It’s...

Light and Dark

This week we let our girls watch the old, old My Little Pony TV show. In the first episode, “Escape from Midnight Castle,” the Moochik gives the ponies a tiny piece of a rainbow of light. They use it to combat the bad guy’s full-size rainbow of...

Individuality in Community

Lately I’ve been thinking about how amazing individuality and relationships are. Individuality gives us a place to stand that’s all our own. I don’t know what your past is like, but mine makes this fact mind-blowing. God created us to have our own space, to be our own...

Tangible Reminders

[Jdg 6:11 NIV] The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. I’m working my way through Priscilla Shirer’s study...

The Daily Struggle

“Carmen, you outdid yourself.” “That’s the best reason to get up in the morning, Player… to do it better than you’ve ever done it before.” ~The Tigress, Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? My kids have been borderline obsessed...

What is Accountability?

Traditional accountability is one of my pet peeves in the Church. Here’s why: in my experiences it’s most often a simple reporting of one’s sin with the emphasis on vanquishing the sin itself. Why does the reporting bother me? If authenticity is...
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