We stood looking at each other, sandwiched between the cold, white floors and stark, fluorescent lights of the airport. It was early – five thirty or six in the morning, maybe. I faced a coffee shop – positioned just behind my parents and my boyfriend. I shifted awkwardly from foot to foot in my red
Always Ask
I am a dreamer. I dream wide and long and often. Every day I dream new dreams about what could be – in my home, in my family, in my church, in my community, in my career. When I was in high school and time stretched out before me, long and lazy, I would spend
Bread and Wine? More like bread and whine!
Bread & Wine by Shauna Niequist. I cannot put it down. Let me explain something to you – I am a mother of three small children. Time for sitting and reading – focused fully on words on a page – it is not possible for very many minutes in a row on very many days
Sex, Thrills, and Fifty Shades of Grey.
Fifty Shades of Grey. Let’s just go ahead and throw it out there. The chatter is endless. The stances are varying. I’m not here to write a critique about the movie or the books themselves. I’ve not read or seen them, and I do not plan to do so. It’s a bad idea for my
Don’t Leave Out the Messy – still brewing
Let’s live here for another post. I’ve been thinking a lot about it. Today, I was reading in Joshua 2 about Rahab (I’m using IF:Equip – a great resource for studying the Word on your own and reflecting on it in an online community). The obvious take away is that God uses anyone who is
Don’t Leave Out the Messy
I need to say something. Don’t leave out the messy. Josh had a conversation with some friends of his the other day about starting a new church – about how they would do it if they had the chance (and the desire or calling). Their answers were honest, thoughtful, and honestly very helpful for Josh
Lovelies
We moved. Again. I’ve mentioned that, right? Slow. Intentional. Back in Florida, as I prayed over our move, over our new home – wherever that would be – I kept hearing these same two words over and again. So, as I consider this new space we occupy, I am working hard to reign “Get it
Because Sometimes I Wish I Was a Big Deal
In your relationship with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found
When I Grow Up I Want to Be an Unfrantic Woman
I stood in the shower letting the hot water massage the back of my neck. “Why am I so tired? Like pregnant tired? But I am NOT pregnant [just so we are all VERY clear].” I fell asleep last week during not one, but two, of my all time favorite movies. I simply could not
BOLD
New Year’s Eve. It never seems to pan out for Josh and me. This year Josh rang in the new year painting by the light of a giant work lamp. I watched Gilmore Girls and then fell asleep at 10:30 after spending all day edging his previous night’s paint job. It was so very romantic.