Category: Reflection
Updated on February 25, 2018
Under the broom bush
It’s been silent on here a long time. Over four months to be exact. I left you on the eve of heart surgery, contemplating the faithfulness of the Lord in the past as we moved into the scary… Read More
Posted on April 26, 2016
Lessons from the driver’s seat
I love how throughout scripture, the Lord uses story and analogy to help us better understand Him and His character. Of course all analogies break and fall short at some point – being that they are but dim… Read More
Posted on January 20, 2016
Working on the jiggly parts
One of my oldest and dearest friends is getting married in May. She pre-dates kids, pre-dates Jeff, pre-dates China. Which means she’s walked through all of those adventures with me. And when Bella happened she bought a plane… Read More
Updated on January 18, 2016
An Evening in Eden
Photo credit: Stephanie Nunley Photography The evening was drawing to a close. Bella sat in my lap, snuggly jammies, eyes half-mast, hand wrapped tight round my thumb, contentedly slurping her last meal of the day. Eliana danced across… Read More
Updated on June 4, 2015
Dear Doctor
It’s 3am again. I was jolted awake tonight with one of those vicious pregnancy leg cramps. For some reason afterward I just kept replaying the conversation with one of the doctors. His look of almost pity toward me… Read More
Updated on June 4, 2015
The midnight watch
Jesus seems to enjoy meeting with me in the late night hours these days. The 2am-4am hours have been our time this week. To be fair, He wasn’t the one who woke me up tonight. That was a… Read More
Updated on May 2, 2013
Food for thought: Disillusionment & Community
Just a few words to chew on tonight as we seek what it means to live in community with one another. {Taken from Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.} Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it… Read More
Posted on May 15, 2012
Food for thought: The snail and the rose-bush
Jeff and I have been reading from a book of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales at night. Some of the stories are just plain strange, but quite a few have deep truths that nestle beneath the strangeness. An… Read More
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