I remember the first day I saw you, just in passing, in the fellowship hall at church. Four years ago our eyes met. I stared. My heart leapt and immediately I knew God had a plan for us. I had to get to know you! I had to know what was behi…
I remember the first day I saw you, just in passing, in the fellowship hall at church. Four years ago our eyes met. I stared. My heart leapt and immediately I knew God had a plan for us. I had to get to know you! I had to know what was behi…
Life around here is never dull. I, in a state of lead-filled limbs and numb brain, declared I was going to lay down on the couch for thirty minutes so that I could hopefully gain back an ounce of invigorating energy. I needed to clean the b…
A steaming cup of flavored coffee on a chilly winter day makes me so thankful for God’s wonderful blessings in my life. I found you reading an art book on my bed. It’s a book you have look at so many times and yet you still get enjoyment fr…
My eyes gaze upward as the birds soar, dip, and wing their way through the cloud thick sky. Oh, to be so free! To experience and taste the wind in varying degrees. To increase the velocity in which it rushes past you with just a flap of the…
My eyes are being opened, my heart filled. The empty and scared places healed. There’s an awakening taking place. My God is not the impersonal God I believed Him to be for so long. He is the lover of my soul. Lover? Really. Not long ago I w…
This is what I see outside my bedroom window when I get up in the morning. When I pull back the curtains, I’m greeted with this glorious site. And though you can’t see it just a few few beyond the creamy hollyhocks is my herb garden. I’ve b…
Six years ago when I started this blog I posted all the time. I loved to write and wrote all the time. When I look back on some of my beginning posts now, I laugh. I was crazy. Some of the stuff I wrote was really not who I was. I was writi…
This weekend I was blessed to be able gather together with a small group of ladies who are all seeking diligently to live lives that are filled with the overflowing, abundance of Christ. As we wrapped up our time together this morning, we a…
Winter and I weren’t always friends. There was a time when I literally abhorred the season of cold and snow, and it wasn’t because of the weather conditions. When my boys were little the winter months brought onslaughts of viral attacks and…
You were an amazing year, that brought some crazy challenges and many unforeseen blessings. Never would I have imagined that I would actually start a photography business. That I would be able to capture God’s breath taking beauty and share…
About a month ago we harvested the soybeans, and I have wanted to write about it for several weeks. But, life around here has been pulling me in a different direction. The words I have flowing in my mind and heart have not had a chance to l…