Posted in Church Year, Gratitude on Apr 1st, 2011
My life is harder than it was two years ago. Mainly this is because I now have twice as many children. Also, my book (my baby) is out of print which means no publisher is going to take a risk on me, so my dreams of writing another book are just that – dreams. As [...]
Posted in Church Year on Mar 25th, 2011
It’s dinner time. The babies are finally sleeping, and I’ve somehow managed to get dinner made and onto the table. Every day, this feels like a bit of a miracle. We gather around the table, Jack, Jane, Doug, and I. I light the match and hand it to Jane. She lights the candle. It’s Lent, [...]
Posted in Church Year, Spiritual Life on Mar 18th, 2011
As a junior in college, I came across a reference to the Jesus Prayer in a book by Madeleine L’Engle. I was intrigued. The Jesus Prayer? What was that? In those days before Google and Wikipedia, it took a bit of searching my college library’s stacks before I was confident I had learned the words [...]
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.