This morning, I, thinking myself quite the clever “preschool homeschool mother”, got out a big bag of various buttons and my muffin pans. I doled out large piles of buttons to my two and four year olds and showed them how they could sort them according to color or size in the different muffin holes. […]

Bible balanced on boppy pillow, the verses come alive in a whole new way… “Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,     all you who love her; …. For you will nurse and be satisfied     at her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply     and delight in her overflowing abundance.” Isaiah 66:10-13 For I am living a microcosm of this […]

    This weekend we celebrated the nineteen year anniversary of her departure from this world and her beckoning into the next.  And what a way to remember and rejoice in her life, but with the newness of her eleventh grandchild and her widowed husband bustling about, helping care for seven of them, just the […]

Hello Little One! My, there’s a story behind your very existence. A family faith walk, a season of defeat and despair, a season of closing ourselves off to the possibility of…you, and then a sweet season of your Creator gently whispering to us and wooing us back into trusting Him with our family size and […]

When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”  “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else […]

*Note* This post was composed a good 3 weeks ago, and is just now being made public.  There is no shame in this, for I have declared that this year would be a year of receiving whatever opportunities for blogging that come my way, rather than trying to force them.  Cheers to every delinquent blogger, […]

My eyes blinked open in the early hours at the sound of a dozen little feet already stirring in the house.  My body, tired and unwilling to move, after having fought back sleep and rest during the New Years Watch Service at our local partner church just a few hours prior.   “Its a new […]