Posted in Gratitude, Raising kids on Feb 3rd, 2012
I have two bags of groceries, one in each hand, when I walk in the front door. I stand in the doorway and survey the wreckage. No, we haven’t been robbed. The house looked like this when I left. If cleanliness is next to godliness, I’m living in the second, or possibly third, circle of [...]
Posted in Gratitude on Jan 6th, 2012
Yes, friends, I wrote two posts today. It’s Epiphany, and I’ve been waiting for months to write a follow-up to the story I told in the Epiphany chapter of my book (that’s the other post), and it’s also the first Friday of the month, the first Friday of a new year. Two years ago, I [...]
Posted in Church Year, Gratitude on Dec 23rd, 2011
A friend tells me her girls have decided not to give or receive Christmas presents this year. “They want to take the money we planned to spend on gifts for each other and use it to help people who really need it,” she says. So one afternoon, they pored over catalogs from Compassion Intenational and [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.
