One of my favorite Old Testament stories is about a woman without a name. Interestingly, she is the woman about whom we have the most biographical information of any other woman in Scripture. We only know her, though, by the name of the town where she lived, Shunem. You may remember the Shunammite woman as… Read More 6 Lessons From A Nameless Woman
Lenox Liberty. Registering for china was still a thing when I got married, and that’s the official name of the fine china I registered for as a bride-to-be back in 1992. Actually, that’s not really true. I registered for another pattern, was gifted about ten sets of that pattern, decided I liked the Liberty pattern… Read More A Place At The Table
It was not necessary. It would not have been missed. No one needed it for nourishment. It actually took some time, perseverance, and focus to produce. And time, perseverance, and focus were not things I had an abundance of that day – or any day in the recent past. But I did it anyway. I… Read More Friday Favorites: Fruit Pizza (in defiance!)
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
I was going to entitle this post May is cray-cray, but then I realized it’s not even May yet. Yikes. May will indeed be crazy – baptisms, a wedding, graduations, Kayla’s thesis presentation day, a family reunion in Texas – but it will be also be wonderfully filled with celebration. I can’t wait. Maybe one… Read More Last Week & A Winner
It’s been a routine around here for a very long time. So long that it actually didn’t even start here in Massachusetts, but is more original to our life in Oklahoma when we had a toddler, an infant, and a ministry to college students. It’s the Sunday routine, and we’ve hardly ever veered from it.… Read More A Sunday In The Life
Kayla created this really great gluten free pumpkin bread recipe a few years back. We can’t quite remember how she did it, but possibly from a combination of other recipes we’d seen and used before. It’s a good one, and I pulled it out on Sunday to make a dessert for a church youth lunch… Read More Pumpkin Bread & Preparations