Where’s this blogging girl gone? Well, after a week spell of intense editing and rereading into the late nights, sickness has slammed the family. And slammed the door on the writing momentum. And when your husband, and your kids, and your pregnant self are all horribly sick, violently coughing through night after sleepless night, aching […]

“…the Lord your God, who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.”  Deuteronomy 1:33 He did this very thing. My husband had been telling me to write a book for the […]

I was soaring in my short lived spurt of energy in this long, draining pregnancy. So I wanted to make the most of it and finally go visit my Muslim friend from Bangladesh who hadn’t seen my face since January (because I’ve been barely eeking out an existence). We baked her, and her disabled son, […]

Ever since I was sixteen I wanted to go. After this happened, and the Lord literally lifted me out of the miry pit of depression, and gave me a firm place to stand, He put a new song in my mouth… And I wanted to sing it to the ends of the earth. And all […]

“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” Matthew 16:24 “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. ” John 12:24 I face death […]

Lent. A time to prepare our hearts for the sacrifice of the One who was sent to save people from the judgement they deserve. A sacrifice necessary to gain us favor in the eyes of our Holy Maker. And in honor of His sacrifice, we choose to sacrifice for 40 days leading to Easter.  All […]

Her story is here. Her impression continues to be here. Her famous recipe is here. For a mother whose mothering continues to inspire and spur on this weary one.