Today is our 31st wedding anniversary, but these things I wrote six years ago still ring true today – maybe even more so. Today is our 25th wedding anniversary. 25 years! I remember thinking ten years was a big accomplishment. Justin Taylor posted a G. K. Chesterton quote on Twitter last week. It made me… Read More 25 Years of Incompatibility
Robert and I are somewhere in southeast Texas right now, a middle-of-nowhere sort of place equidistant from Austin, San Antonio, and Houston. It’s really beautiful here. Not the majestic-fall-foliage beauty of New England that we’ve grown so accustomed to, but the back-road, brushy, barbed-wire beauty that is still very familiar to us. We walked a… Read More The Gift of Home
Scrolling through Instagram the other day, I landed on a post that was both startling and encouraging. It was written by a Christian woman I follow, and it contained forthright words of biblical wisdom targeted to other female believers. In essence, she called out our recent exaltation of glass-ceiling-crashers as idolatry. It was startling at… Read More Prophesying Out Of Their Own Hearts
Have you recently put together a creative charcuterie board? Traveled to an unusual vacation spot? Have you donned a casual hat, denim overalls, some new hipster eyeglasses, or matching family pajamas? Start a new health or beauty routine? If so, it may be due to the influencer who shows up in your social media feeds… Read More Who’s Influencing You? Five Reasons to Read a Missionary Biography This Year
We sat on her living room floor drinking tea, playing with her two toddlers, and catching up on life. Kim, a new wife and mom, had been a college student in our church ten years prior to this reunion at her new home in a different part of the state. She had become a Christian… Read More Take Them To Church
On Monday I spent a half day in the kitchen getting ready for a discipleship planning dinner here. Today is a full day of cooking and baking (and laundry, and…) to get ready for Kayla’s graduation party tomorrow afternoon. Cooking is a skill that often gets attributed to me, and while I do enjoy some… Read More Friday Favorites: Black Bean Dip
Before I tell you about a very baffling mystery I encountered this week, I want to welcome my fellow Elisabeth Elliot friends. I’m so glad to have you here, and hope you’ll come back again sometime. To my regular readers: Some very cryptic and curious things happened around here this week. On Tuesday I got… Read More Mystery of the Booming Blog Stats
Yesterday I did 20 minutes on the elliptical and 20 minutes of very slow jogging on the treadmill. I was thrilled with this progress, because just two and a half weeks ago I couldn’t really even walk across the room without crutches. Never in my life have I needed crutches, and I hope I never… Read More Slow (but steady) Progress
So fun! I would have been so thrilled to send a Bible study workbook to any of you who commented on the last post, because each of you are really precious to me. Really. I truly love connecting with you here, and sharing life’s battles and our common faith. But, Sara Evans was the winner,… Read More A Winner & A Podcast
On July 28, 2000 I gave birth to a beautiful little girl named Kayla. It was a scheduled c-section for several reasons, and it just happened to be Kathie Lee Gifford’s very last day on “Live With Regis and Kathie Lee.” Random, I know, but the show was playing on the TV in the surgery… Read More The How of Eating (And a Giveaway)