Revelation. It was the next book staring at me as I turned the page from Jude on my journey through the New Testament in recent months. My first thoughts were: Ugh. I don’t want to read Revelation. Crazy visions, bowls of wrath, angels, sealed books, dragons with seven heads, and sea beasts. No one knows… Read More Celebration Grace
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
Did you see the video that was circulating a few weeks back featuring the little girl from Ireland who was brokenhearted that she wasn’t invited to the Royal Wedding? She truly believed she was going to “Meghan’s wedding,” and when her mom explained that you have to be royalty – a real princess, in order… Read More Hurdles and Hope
Do you love crossing things off of a list? I love it until it feels like crossing things off lists is all my life amounts to. I have lists everywhere – on my Post-It note pad, on spiral notebook paper I stole from Kayla, on computer paper folded in half, on my phone. I won’t… Read More Friday Favorites: Podcasts, Postage, and Pineapple
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
“We were both so filled at Easter, and also kinda fried,” is what my friend Christina said the other day when we were catching up via text message. (Hopefully she doesn’t mind me quoting her.) She is also a pastor’s wife, but you don’t have to have that role to feel that way. Everyone I… Read More Spring: “Filled & Fried”