Do you ever wonder what you’re capable of? What if what we may yet accomplish is a matter of where we fix our gaze? Sometimes the danger lies in focusing on the spent things of the past rather than working within the light of today. It’s a matter of where we choose to focus. Let’s Read more…
Brokenness Leads to Freedom
Rummaging around on the family farm I discovered hidden treasure. Not because it’s actually valuable, but because of what it represents –captives being set free. I love the imagery of a broken lock. Prisoners no longer held by chains. Even those of our own making. What if brokenness leads to freedom? Much of what holds Read more…
Let’s Have More Fun
So Hubby and I took a little trip. Drove our daughter back to college in Oregon, then spent a few days driving, strolling, and eating our way back home alongside the ocean and one very large river. Recent months have overflowed with long, hard work, bookended by quiet stays in remote places. Along the way the Read more…
Thank You!
Hi All, I just wanted to say thank you to y’all for giving me these moments of your life, and tell you IT MEANS THE WORLD TO ME! I know how busy all our lives are. How we all just need a little encouragement and a shot of beauty in our day to remind us… Read more…
Living Arms Wide Open
I’ve decided to take a lesson from little friend hummingbird – consuming life, living arms wide open. Doesn’t that sound fun? Have you ever noticed how a hummingbird brings delight to the heart whenever they appear? These tiny teachers show us how to live and move with arms wide open. When life hurts too much Read more…
Life Woven Around Wheat
I’ve been thinking a lot about WHEAT. Maybe that’s because I’m driving a wheat truck in harvest just like I did 30 years ago when I was a kid. Circling back to it was never part of my career plans, but I’m so glad now that I did. It’s hot, dirty, sweaty work with long Read more…
He Makes All Things Beautiful
I’ve been looking back a lot lately, at some of the ugliest times in my life. Not out of morbid fixation, but because there is a strange beauty in those stories that now serve to give others hope. It reminds me of a bird I once saw – at first glance I believed it was Read more…
Difficulties Are Like Bridges
Last night I chatted with an old friend. We hadn’t talked in ages. We’d met years ago, volunteering at a Women of Faith Conference in Texas, just after my life had fallen apart: marriage, family, job, home, father, and every beautiful thing I owned suddenly gone. She had been an encouragement to me. Today she finds Read more…
Blessed By Rest
There comes a time when we all need to take permission to be blessed by rest. And sometimes we need to be reminded of what that even looks like. For me, it’s time alone in the mountains with a cup of coffee, God, and a book. Okay, a LOT of books : ) Our souls Read more…
Hanging On for Dear Life
The past few months have been a roller-coaster of events, activity, and travel, mingled with bouts of a bug that left me upside down, just hanging on for dear life. Ever felt that way? Like someone hit the fast forward button on your life and the best you can do is hold on? At my Read more…