most recent thought…
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Read more: one more
It’s been a long day. I’ve been telling myself we’ll make it to bedtime with everyone’s sanity and hearts intact. I’ve been telling myself we’re doing great and it’s ok to be a little tuckered out. I’ve been telling myself I’m just a little tense with the old nerves, it’s been a long day, you…
other thinkings…
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counting minutes
Read more: counting minutesThe year started in a place I didn’t expect: New York. As the hours winded down to the last midnight of 2013, all I could think about was being somewhere else, figuratively. Literally. I was supposed to be at the beach in Ecuador with my sisters’ husbands’ family. I was supposed to be drinking a gin and tonic, playing cards, and worrying about getting sunburned.…
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the grace to give thanks
Read more: the grace to give thanksMaybe it is the holidays closing in upon us that makes me weary, or perhaps it is the 24/7 life that calls to keep on keeping on–either way, I look out my backyard window and ask, “How much longer, Lord?” I don’t think I even fully understand what it is that I await. I just know that I ache. Body and soul, heart and mind,…
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burdens breaking
Read more: burdens breakingThese last few weeks have been filled with moments of hardship. Things that should have been simple have hurt me, and I’ve fallen asleep some nights with an aching for another home. I have felt the weight of this calling–the calling to serve, the calling to sacrifice, the calling to keep on pouring out even when there seems to be so little pouring in–so much…
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the old man and the sea
Read more: the old man and the seaMy students and I are about to start reading The Old Man and the Sea, and I’m excited/scared to explore the idea of defeat with them. In the book Santiago fights to bring home the greatest marlin man has ever seen, and although he fails, there is still victory in his return. Even though the sea has beat him down to disillusionment and despair. Even…
Do justice. Love kindness. Walk humbly.
scribbling along since 2013
currently…
a scribble of jo 