Breaking the blogging silence…

Weeks have flown by with nary a blog post.  My husband noted yesterday that I went to the She Speaks conference in North Carolina back in July to explore my calling as a writer…and then promptly stopped writing! No correlation, really, I just had to hit the ground running full steam (figuratively speaking, of course) when I returned, knowing I’d have to […]

Pivot Point

There are those times, those moments, those days that change all things forever.  Sometimes they only slip into clarity with the benefit of hindsight.  Sometimes they catch you unaware in a moment unanticipated.  Sometimes you can see them coming toward you in the distance, closer and closer, sometimes with a sense of great anticipation, sometimes with great trepidation, sometimes with […]

We are weak but He is strong…

It’s a high pain day, one of the pesky flares that are an inevitable but unpredictable part of my chronic illness life.  My thorn of the flesh, is oh-so-very-thorny today.  Which leads to more ranting and raving in my brain about this transition our family is wading through, which is oddly cobbled together with all the OTHER transitions of the […]

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100% Grateful

Contentment found in a moment where I get to decide. Choosing to not spend myself in longing for what is not and to fully bring in what IS. Fountain-sound mingled with a song I don’t know- the soundtrack of my future, a melody God is composing. Soft breeze and the taste of iced coffee on my tongue. Finding the familiar […]

Qualifying the Unqualified

Hours spent with wheels spinning and getting NOWHERE, I have found myself so very stuck in the frenetic nothingness of frustration.  Awash in the irony of the situation, I am up to my ears in the extraneous trappings of trying to “be a writer” and I’m doing zero writing.  I’m spending time to learn how to do it better, how […]

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Contemplations the week before Graduation…

I recently had the pleasure of have a few unexpected moments yarn shopping in Hobby Lobby with a dear friend.  As we wandered at a leisurely pace back to the needlework department, I glanced over to a section of home décor items, (how can you miss it, honestly?), seemingly for a nursery, and saw one that struck me.  “For this child […]

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