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Walking through gardens, traversing trails, wandering among flowers — both wild and planted — I find pace with the rhythms of my steps, the sound of whirring trees, the evenness of my breath. At [...]

Pruning is an act of love. So is raising children. Today I am pruning bushes and trees and teens’ attitudes and my own perspective. My daughter found me outside in the lilac bushes, and [...]

For those who feel their lives are grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When [...]

What surprised you today? Was it mercy? Or grace? Or joy? I hope so. I pray that we all may be breathless by an expression of grace, or a second chance; where there was [...]

Recently, we had a rare movie night moment as a family and watched part of a Star Wars film on television. Yoda’s words to Luke resound even now (wise and relevant the wisdom of [...]

In two brief months, she’ll turn 16. Wasn’t it just yesterday my eldest daughter was 18 months old, daydreaming out Oma’s window, singing all the time? A joy then, and now! Sometimes, when we’re [...]

And this is our ragged, fleshly life – tragedy and grief bookended at both sides by delightful joy and visions of felicity. We encounter the deepest delight, followed by profound tragedy, and then later, [...]

Sometimes an urging of God moves me away from the location of those I love, and that always involves great risk and faith, to fully embrace the Lord’s direction in life, trusting him to provide friendships, support, and [...]