After Andrew’s and my refreshing retreat last week, we felt empowered to come back together as a team restrengthened by our faith, resurrected prayer lives, and excited hope for the future of our marriage. So often married people fall into seeing each other as opponents instead of teammates and I was so sick of that […]
The Daily Grind Leads to Immediate and Eternal Paradise
Ah, an excellent reminder. Gentle enough to compel me, but brief enough to give me the kick in the soul I’ve needed. Lately I’ve made it my mission to avoid idleness online; a vice to which I’m pretty easily prone. It’s like my mind goes on auto-pilot: “Oh, the boys are playing – I’ll check […]
Too-Little-Too-Late Hospitality
We have some dear friends who are being stationed to upstate New York and on their way out of town, they generously gave of their time to pay our family a visit. My admiration for this couple is great because within their first year of marriage, they endured a painfully long deployment which the husband, […]
Material or Monastic?: trying to pick and stick with a lifestyle
The struggle I have is an on-going one (for years) between two parts of me: Shopper and Simple. Fact: I thrill in shopping. Home decor, home projects, craft projects, clothes/accessories for myself or any of my men (big or small), finding and recreating ideas from Pottery Barn or Pinterest, etc. I find an idea, get […]
Jesse Tree!
Hey Everyone! Advent starts tomorrow – Happy New Year! Check out this great post from Healthy Family to do your very own Jesse Tree this year. The site offers full-color or black-and-white images for your child(ren) to color, too. These ornaments are geared toward little ones, but there are plenty of “big kid” or “grown-up” […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
To you and your families, have a very blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving! God bless America!
A Humble Rant Against Celebrating Christmas in November
Andrew called me from Walmart yesterday. “They’re playing Christmas music,” he reported. {In case anyone needs context, yesterday was the Sunday before Thanksgiving…} More than any previous year, I’ve lately understood and realized the importance of living in the now in all sorts of ways, but especially when it comes to holidays. People are already […]
Stand by Your Man: My Lesson in Foolishness
The on-going conversions in my life usually involve some sort of humbling or embarrassing realization. My hindsight does well at 20/20 and I wish my foresight could compare. This story took place a very long time ago in Katie Years. Pardon any ambiguity – the details are not what makes this conversion important. Andrew was […]
O Me of Little Faith
I hate to post anything that could come off as white noise, but it’s the election that’s on my mind and rather heavily so. I turned on Fox News Tuesday evening brimming with confidence in a Romney/Ryan success. Regardless of party affiliation, I thought it was perfectly clear that President Obama’s job performance was pretty […]
Words of Wisdom Wednesday: One Thought on Hope
”Even when God’s plans at first sight seem to portend nothing but disaster, we have to see things with supernatural vision. There is a higher plane of existence which we do not fully appreciate. That ominous turn of events will perhaps serve as the necessary shadow in a beautiful work of art. After all, is […]
