there are some things i've learned as i come to the mid point of my life,  and should i be given another 37, almost 36 years, i'm su...

  so we buy a home and move in officially on the very first of june and i remember how i woke up to the sound of rain on the roof wh...

He spoke it in the quiet of the new year .  that promise of a new thing; of a way in the wilderness and rivers in a desert. i thought H...

my life is marked by brokenness. as, i am sure, every person is to some extent whether the pain is large or small. this jar of clay, li...

it's as i pulled the cloth over the surface of the tv stand that i paused and said it out loud, the life you ask us to lead is too har...

it's as the wind is howling on the eve of the first day of lent that i find myself bent over in the posture of prayer and vomit dripp...

i have stood on a frozen field with my face lifted up to a night sky alive and dancing with the blues and greens and purples of the northern...

there are moments that one wishes they could take back. today held a few of those. harsh words written down, a send button pushed and c...

i heard the breaking before i stood up. i heard her gasp and her little feet dance and her instant,  mama, i'm sorry! but it was eno...

but do i? He knows the depths of my heart, how i long to speak out of the darkness of my sinfulness ~ to cause as much pain as i deem has ...

( source ) May thy cross be to me     as the tree that sweetens my bitter Marahs,     as the rod that blossoms with life and beauty,     ...

it's been a while since something has moved me so deeply. maybe because of the hopelessness i have felt in my own life when only one si...

lyla is a glorious combination of tomboy and girly-girl. she loves to be outside with her daddy and dig in the dirt or kick a ball around or...