Inheritance (Letting Go of Guilt)

  We inherited several gallon-sized bags of blueberries when my in-laws sold their house and moved to Florida.  I like to think that they were handpicked by my mother-in-law some time ago, back before the brain tumor and multiple surgeries left her partially...

Obedience? (Wow Stars, Paint and Billy Joel)

“Only the good die young . . .” – Billy Joel That song by Billy Joel always irked me, catchy though it is, because I was one of the good girls, always.   // “I’m tired of following the rules all the time,” I told my husband, standing in the kitchen on a...

On Our Anniversary (Let’s Dance)

I’ve seen better days, dripping down your face.  We don’t have to talk, let’s dance.  – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros We’re fourteen years in – seven years without kids and seven years with – so it feels like...

An Introvert’s One Word Post (363 days late)

Last year was my first year blogging through the New Year and the first time I was exposed to OneWord365. Alece Ronzino came up with the concept of praying for One Word that encapsulates what God might be inviting you into in the year ahead and a whole community has...

Scattered Gifts (Exchanging Memos With God)

A few weeks ago a dear friend gave us a computer – out of the blue. We really needed a second computer, but couldn’t begin to figure out how we could buy one. Then, BAM, just like that, before we’d hardly wrapped our minds around it, the problem was...
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