Sometimes the pace of life seems impossible due to things out of my control, but in the case of the Mother’s Day Half Marathon, the pace was within my control, and I chose to go faster than ever before, shaving 6 whole minutes off my previous personal record. It was all Betsy’s fault, really. If… Read More Impossible Pace, Inscrutable God
Don’t know how I ever found time to blog for 40 plus days during Lent, but it was such a good and healing experience for me. Today I’m sitting down catch up here when I really have a million other obligations awaiting. But I can hardly move this morning after the activity level of the… Read More Catchin’ Up {but not really…}
I’m a day late, but for some reason Blogger wasn’t working last night, and I couldn’t log in to my blog. So, I sat in a chair drinking tea, watching the final episode of “The Bible” with Robert and the kids, and being thankful for the wonderful season of Lent and the great Resurrection Day… Read More Celebrating Together {Resurrection Sunday!}
Whole Foods Cashier: {surprised} “Is that horseradish? That’s a lot of horseradish!” Me: {laughing} “Yes, it IS horseradish. And it IS a lot! Whole Foods Cashier: “Do you mind if I ask what you are going to do with all of that horseradish?” I quickly explained that I was making 15 Seder Plates for a… Read More Bitter Roots, Sweet Trees {Lent Day #44}
The questions was “What turn of event in your life has the Lord used to perfect you as a worshiper of Him?” Around the tables small groups of women began to answer… “I lost my job last week, but I start a new one tomorrow.” “I had a baby a year ago.” “He broke our… Read More Tender Tears {Lent Day #42}
I know that yesterday was also “Day #40” but I just realized that I skipped from #26 to #28 a while back, so today is really day 40, and maybe I’ll go back and change the numbers of the posts at some point!?! Today is Palm Sunday. When I get to church in a little… Read More Perfume and Palms {Lent day #41}
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}
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}
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}