the /grace/ between
The grace poured out between.
On Keeping Them Safe
(Trigger warning: Brief mention of suicide and self harm.) When I turned forty, I thought I said goodbye to a decade of being tired. Chuckbob wasn’t even a thought. COVID was months away. // I remember when my Second Son was just weeks old, and I was a fresh mom...
only-God-can …. or, Epic moment, didn’t you notice?
Been reading a lot about only-God-can-dreams lately. Have one, in fact. Do you ever have moments that are epic .... and you are looking around, waiting, shocked, really, that no one can see the epic-ness radiating from your general location .... then you realize...
Sartorial Splendor
It's 75 here in Kansas (!!) and we are basking in the outdoor play. After rest time today, I hurried J into the back yard without really paying attention to her. When she ran into the house to show me the ladybug she had befriended and I got the full effect of her...
Strangely Dim ….
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where where your...
Happy Birthday Wee Man!
Wee Man is one today! Already ....Happy Birthday!!You were born three hundred and sixty five days ago in Alaska, in a blizzard. Today you are a teething mess (working on number 8) and the light of my life. The second man-person I've ever been wildly in love...
Small Beginnings
"For who has despised the day of small things?" Zechariah 4:10. Right now I feel like I am on a hamster wheel built of laundry and dirty dishes and cleaning up rooms and phonics battles and whining sessions and teething sessions. Throw in the occasional bathroom...