Like much of the country, our little farm here in East Tennessee saw record-breaking cold and snow during the month of January. And even though I’m a homeschool mom, I celebrated with many of you when our activities were canceled and we were forced to stay home, hunker down, and lay low. (I must be…
I fight the urge to hyperventilate as we get close to the trailhead. I wish the cause was adrenaline and excitement, but that’s not the problem. Self-recrimination runs wild. How could I do this to myself again? What was I thinking when I said another yes to this kind of trip? Did I forget that…
“I don’t know how you do it,” a friend told me. “Church, kids, writing.” “I don’t sleep,” I said, half-joking. (We have a newborn; it’s only half a joke.) While moving fast, going quickly, and multitasking may be impressive in a world filled with content-creating and service-providing and like-share-click-tweet, they aren’t good. Running at the…
One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord. (Psalm 27:4 NIV) Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. (John…
“This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 ESV). Two days in a row this verse popped up in something I was reading. At the time, I was feeling overwhelmed by everything I had to do, much of which couldn’t be cut from my list. Seeing…
I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. (Malachi 3:6 NIV) Around this time every year, I begin to see New Year memes popping up in my social media feeds. You know the ones. They typically say something like “New Year, New Me.” They talk about cutting weight or cutting crummy…