Still away today on Cape Cod for a women’s retreat. Would you pray for the time if you think of it? Thought I would post these links ahead of time, since I won’t have my computer with me. Can’t believe it’s already day #40 of the Lenten season. Holy Week begins on Sunday, and I’m… Read More Keller & Elliot on Confession {Lent Day #40}
Passover, Good Friday, and Easter are just around the corner, and I can hardly wait! I think it is my favorite week of the year. We’ll do a Passover Seder for over 100 people next Wednesday night at church, a Crosswalk through town on Good Friday and later that evening a sort of Tenebrae service.… Read More Gluten Free Friday ~ Brisket for Passover {Lent Day #39}
Her text message was urgent and despairing. Anxious, uncomfortable, wanting to hide. She’s a thousand miles away this week, so a phone date had to suffice. Stuck and hopeless. I urged her to reach out and be honest with another ~ no more hiding, no more shadow-living, no more deceiving. Nope. Not happening. It’s too… Read More Recalling, Remembering, Rehearsing {Lent Day #38}
I remember my grandmother sitting on the floor in the hallway, her face in a strapped contraption attached to bungee-cord-like ropes that somehow hooked to the her bedroom door frame. When I inquired about this strange practice, she informed me she was doing a “face-lift.” I suppose it was the 1970’s answer to plastic surgery,… Read More Not Plastic Surgery, But Cardiac {Lent Day #37}
Run, shower, dress, put dinner in the crock pot for the kids, write a few notes to grandmas and dear praying WMU ladies, help with a few ratio math problems, go to the post office, make sure sports physical and payment for baseball get to the high school, change sheets on bed, pack history books… Read More Fine Art, Snow, and Trash {Lent Day #36}
Yawn…just the birthplace of our country…site of the Boston Massacre…place where the Declaration of Independence was first read….yawn. So boring. If all goes according to plan, I will head to Boston in a few hours in order to pick Robert up at Logan airport. He’s coming home from his trip to the Dominican Republic tonight.… Read More Perpetual Tourist {Lent Day #35}
Last December through March, our family got to take a three month sabbatical in Austin, TX. It was wonderful in many ways, and one of those was Robert reading an excerpt from this book aloud to me in the mornings or evenings or both. If I remember correctly, the book may have been a gift… Read More Confession Help From Mr. Baxter {Lent Day #34}
It was just Kayla and me last night. We skied all day in Vermont {last day for the season, and we even ended the day with a black diamond!}, came home in time for Kayla’s Friday evening dance class, and then sent Kory and Cooper off to the 30 Hour Famine. Robert made it safely… Read More All Confessed Out? {Lent Day #33}
Today is our last day of skiing for the season, and it also happens to be the first day of World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine that my boys will be participating in. Their final meal is supposed to be lunch today, and they will break their 30 hour fast at 6pm on Saturday evening. The… Read More Gluten Free Friday ~ Feasting Before the Famine Bars {Lent Day #32}
Those are the kids of words that John Piper always uses when talking about how, in new birth and regeneration, we are now able to view and treasure Christ. I’ve never read Desiring God (I know, I know…), but I’ve heard him speak plenty of times, and I’m reading a book of his right now… Read More Seeing and Savoring Supremely {Lent Day #31}