a settled place

Livia is the youngest child, and really has everything her heart could possibly desire - the Christmas list was short, and her siblings have already received all the gift suggestions I could come up with in years past. After more time than I probably should have allotted for searching for things for her, I finally landed on a Charlie Brown Christmas Polly Pocket. My own siblings rolled their eyes at what I'm permitting for the youngest but we'll just wait and see how things a

In our Bible study group right now, we're working through "Grace in Chaos: Biblical Hope for the Hard Days in Motherhood". It has generated some wonderful discussion and so much self-examination as well, as any good study does. But there's an emotion I've been wrestling with on a number of different levels in the past couple weeks that isn't covered in the book - embarrassment. I've failed in hard-to-recover-from ways several times in the recent past, and I know there is Gosp

I commented to our Bible study group the other day that most of my biggest relational regrets stem out of one root problem: my failure to...

I had made one too many mistakes in just one day last week, and my weariness was spilling over into tears. I was so tired of saying the...

Our Bible study group has been reading this phrase a lot in Every Home a Foundation by Phylicia Masonheimer. It's a concept that has...

Context in Luke 22 would suggest that the servant girl knew Peter had been with Jesus because of simple facial recognition - she had seen...

I studied this topic recently to present at a motherhood conference; dropping my outline here! What does the world say? - We need more:...

I hope you always gasp when you listen to simple stories about foxes and forests, and when you see a stunning sunset. I hope you always...

It was sunny this morning, and we have all that we need here at home including blankets and coffee and colored pencils and chromebooks,...