life together
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Around us and to us.
I’ve been pondering the differences of our hardships in Zanesville and those of our life in Columbus. Both are and were difficult, full of a lot of times where we threw our hands…
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Light and Shadows
Our dining room is my favorite spot in our house. A place of convergence at all times of day to both create and eat. During the evening hours of spring and fall the room…
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family mission statement.
Every family in our shared life group put together family mission statements as homework this past week to share with each other. This is something that Brad and I did a few years…
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the search for church.
Sometimes I like to look back through old writing that I didn’t post because at the time they were too raw, too close for comfort. Sometimes when I find them now it is…
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the fall of summer.
Free I be. Free I give. Unencumbered beauty gazing into the pinked sky. My shoulders give way to the beauty of the sunset. Releasing hot air as my breath enters steady. A cool…
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all that is.
Sometimes when I’m stuck doing a really mundane task like sweeping or hanging clothes out to dry I think about how my grandparents may have stood in the same spot doing the same…
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the dung.
*** I wrote this almost a year ago (it’s unedited). Praise Jesus for what he has done in that year’s time. We are in our spacious place and the house in the city…
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enjoy peace.
The past couple of years at the beginning of the new year I’ve had a word to focus on for that upcoming year. 2013 was contentment and for 2014 I picked peace. When…
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8 years.
8 years seems like a really long and a really short amount of time to be married. I look back at photos from that day and think about how young we were. About…
