Category: Reflection

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

Smoke

I happen to believe that I’m privileged to live in one of the most beautiful regions in the country. We’re a valley filled with sunshine and blue skies for much of the year. We look over the Columbia… Read More

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

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

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

My list

You may think that we returned from our momentous day in Seattle on Monday and went blissfully to sleep with praise on our lips. Can I let you in on a little secret – lest you think my… Read More

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

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

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

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