It’s not so pretty as I’d like it to be, this mess of a life, God. I fell asleep trying to talk to You. Things get stopped up around grace, around responsibility, around confession. I don’t think I have been shutting You out, but I’ve not been actively seeking You. I know because I don’t [...]

please forgive the repeated photo posts; i’m fighting something with my rss feed. Pete shot this at the beach last weekend. I posed for him. I really love the way this came out. He was being such a tease. There’s a blush there, I’m sure. (Image © Informal Moments Photography)

this is life sometimes. this is my life right now. this is the beauty that is. hello, weekend. (Image © Informal Moments Photography)

The baby is no longer sleeping through the night. I think he is on a growth spurt. I get up early with him, put him back to sleep, find some quiet time that is just for me. I stay up late too, after the kids are asleep, to find some quiet time that is just [...]

Morning. The kids tag-teamed yesterday. I was crazy. I am up early today; I have been working on other things and not so much here. I am learning about free, about how I don’t know how to be so, though I fight and hope and fight for it. I wonder if this is something others [...]

holdthe sand holdthe gift holdthe time that slips, thetime we cannot hold (Image © Informal Moments Photography)

and that he would drop me. yeah. you can tell I believed him. (Image © Informal Moments Photography – special thanks to Joseph Moss for manning the camera!)