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 [...]
Posted in Reading on Dec 16th, 2011
The first Friday of Advent, I headed down to the basement to grab our wreath-form, so I could take it to church that night and make our Advent wreath. Since I was rummaging around in the Advent box, I grabbed a dozen or so of our favorite Christmas books and brought them upstairs, too. As [...]
Posted in Church Year on Dec 28th, 2010
Today is Holy Innocents, the day the Church remembers Herod’s slaying of the Bethlehem infants. It is also the seventh anniversary of Jack’s baptism. In honor of both events, I’m posting an excerpt from my book. On the day of Jack’s baptism, Isaiah’s words hung heavy in the air: “All joy has reached its eventide; [...]
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.