– the first Archie’s shredded chicken sandwich of the season – visiting N. Main and feeling right at home 🙂 – Jamie yelling my name from across the aisle – the eclipse!! and getting to experience it with Angelina – April showers – stumbling into grace and the happy surprise of a birthday card from… Continue reading Everyday Grace: April
a long lost TTMMH from December 2023… – feeling so revived by reading Luke – running into Tracy at Coffee Amici – snow on the day before I left, like a Christmas gift from Ohio – Angelina’s note – overhearing a random conversation with two strangers on the plane; an older gentleman with a slight… Continue reading Everyday Grace: December
This is still TTMMH (things that made me happy) but just by a different name 🙂 – the ways the Lord has met me while reading Exodus – chatting with Hannah while making cookies – singing hymns in my living room – crocuses and daffodils peeking out all over the place – the Greens making… Continue reading Everyday Grace: March
I’m all tender today. I woke up early this morning, not sure what time but way before my 6:32 alarm, and I woke up still thinking about the Go Conference- all the beauty and goodness I experienced. Then all of a sudden I got a memory from the summer before 8th grade, I think it… Continue reading letter to You #1
I’m slow. Slow to speak. Slow to move. Slow to react. Slower than Moses, some would say. It’s my nature and my lifelong struggle. On good days it looks like patience, compassion, and long-suffering love. On bad days it looks like passivity, anxiety, and stubborn headed-ness. Dear reader, I regret to inform you, I’ve been… Continue reading Bad Day
– breakfast with Tracy – the excitement of our first prayer open house – Kidway Sundays becoming my favorite Sundays – when “This Little Light of Mine” came on and all the kids went on stage – dancin’ with Jesus – evening Communion service, sitting with the CO crew, and cake in the lobby –… Continue reading TTMMH: November
– sitting on the Rath couch for the first time in a long while, catching up with Tracy and going home with a bag of apples from their backyard – going to Cleveland on a whim, seeing Jess Ray and Chris Renzema live, meeting Corrina, and getting a pic with Jess! (dude, THE Jess Ray… Continue reading TTMMH: October
I’m realizing what I didn’t realize before–the feeling underneath all the feelings that I’ve been burying. When I found out Kairos was closed and that I was “stuck” here, there was a lot of disappointment and some confusion but also that, “Of course,” feeling. Like, of course we all knew it wasn’t really going to… Continue reading The Thing Once Buried
– Run with the Horses; falling in love with the prophet Jeremiah by seeing him through Eugene’s eyes – moments under the maple even when I’m feeling dry and distant – Everywhere the River Goes, Nathan Nockels – walking in the literal river while chatting with Grandma; her telling me about the new Bible study… Continue reading TTMMH: September
Here’s another mishmash of random writings, some recent and some from many moons ago. Hope you enjoy! We talk about our father wounds and our mother wounds because, yes, they do wound us. But I do wonder how much I’ve wounded them, too. Do they have daughter wounds? Or scars? Or tender places that just… Continue reading Smorgasbord of Sorts #2
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