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Costly and Completely Free

Summer break is halfway through and I don't feel all that rested. Do you?!? The schedule's let up and everyone's enjoyed a bit more leisure, but rest? I'm still looking...

Costly and Completely Free

Summer break is halfway through and I don't feel all that rested. Do you?!? The schedule's let up and everyone's enjoyed a bit more leisure, but rest? I'm still looking...

The Macro-Effect of Micro-Rituals

The Macro-Effect of Micro-Rituals

  "Ritual is the way we (learn to) believe with our bodies." -- James K.A. Smith in Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works I've been thinking a lot, lately, about worship, about...

The Macro-Effect of Micro-Rituals

  "Ritual is the way we (learn to) believe with our bodies." -- James K.A. Smith in Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works I've been thinking a lot, lately, about worship, about...

Why I Don't Read My Bible

Why I Don't Read My Bible

In the last 11 years of motherhood, my personal time in the Word of God has been sadly dominated by seasons of inconsistency and distraction rather than those of faithfulness and diligence....

Why I Don't Read My Bible

In the last 11 years of motherhood, my personal time in the Word of God has been sadly dominated by seasons of inconsistency and distraction rather than those of faithfulness and diligence....

To Be Extraordinarily Ordinary

“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.” -G.K. Chesterton What is it about ordinary that seems so unsatisfying? In...

To Be Extraordinarily Ordinary

“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.” -G.K. Chesterton What is it about ordinary that seems so unsatisfying? In...

12 Things To Remember When Spending Time With Family

12 Things To Remember When Spending Time With F...

The older you get, the more you appreciate family. I only get to spend about one week each year with my parents and my brother and his family. We were...

12 Things To Remember When Spending Time With F...

The older you get, the more you appreciate family. I only get to spend about one week each year with my parents and my brother and his family. We were...

Knit Together In A Fallen World

Knit Together In A Fallen World

Ten tiny fingers,Ten tiny toes. Eyes that cross when he tries to look into mine. Cowlicks in a pattern unique to only him. A swaddled miracle-- an inexplicable marvel in...

Knit Together In A Fallen World

Ten tiny fingers,Ten tiny toes. Eyes that cross when he tries to look into mine. Cowlicks in a pattern unique to only him. A swaddled miracle-- an inexplicable marvel in...