most recent thought…
-
Read more: how farThere have been a lot of specific moments this summer that have revealed to me how far we’ve come. A few weeks ago, the kids and I went out for pizza at our favorite spot. The kids like it because there’s an old-school gum-ball machine in the vestibule. I like it because I can buy…
other thinkings…
-
home again
Read more: home againComing back to this site feels like opening the door to a stranger’s attic, ascending the steep stairs, and rounding the corner to see the dust glitter in the sunlight. I smell the carpet, feel the warmth of the summer heat, see the tree through the round window as it scrapes its branches against the pane. But it’s not a stranger’s attic; it’s mine. And…
-
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.…
-
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,…
-
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…
Do justice. Love kindness. Walk humbly.
scribbling along since 2013
currently…
