I looked out my window yesterday and I felt as though I had been given permission to breathe. I didn’t know I had been waiting for it. That is the alive part, the breathing, physically, spiritually – all of it. ♥ I let something go yesterday, one thing I’ve been trying and trying and trying [...]

Opening my home is not an easy thing for me. It involves cleaning my house and preparing my kitchen for extra mouths. It means that I won’t have my own space, the little that I get in between my littles on a given day. It often means that I have to take care what I [...]

I tell Piper that prayer isn’t anything hard – it’s just telling God about her day. I tell her that He likes it when she talks to Him. Every night I tell her that He loves her more than we ever could. I tell her these things because I believe them. Because they are simple [...]

The study for the seventh week in God in the Yard is about presence, finding the presence of God in the dark, when things aren’t clear, when intimacy seems out of reach. As I finally found a moment to sit down and finish the chapter last night, I laughed, wishing I’d saved yesterday’s post for [...]

I see things a little different. I see the halo around the sun when I should be seeing a puddle in a parking lot. I see the smile in the eyes if the mouth is smiling or not. I see the memory in the snow, not the individual flakes. I see unique personality instead of [...]

There is so much wrong with this photo, but I love it. I love it for the whites and the subtle blue, the secrets behind the glass, the scent of the sea breeze scattering heat at the corner of King and Calhoun where we waited for the “walk” sign to cross. I love the lions [...]

sometimes i forget who You are, what my heart knows You look like, who I am when You are the biggest part of me. i have known You gritty deep, and wrestled You in night hours with tears and distrust until i break and You have blessed me with kind love. i forget that too, [...]