My Bible is water and bread and air. There are a lot of things I could live without — ice cream, nice clothes, a bed, confectionery sprinkles — but no Bible? I just don’t want to live in that world. I started reading my Bible regularly at an early age when quantity was in fashion. Reading the … Continue reading
My favorite time of day — besides waking up to birds and sunshine at the beginning of it and dozing off to dream adventures at the end — is tea time. Tea time starts at 8:15 a.m. Unless we still have the remaining bits of lunches to pack and chores to complete, which means most days it actually starts … Continue reading
Some days I wake up in peacefulness, just totally OK with myself and the fact that I have a day — a whole day! — ahead of me that I get to go live however I want. By ‘some days’ I mean ‘a few’. I think there were six or seven days last year but there … Continue reading
I get easily overwhelmed. I just started admitting this to people and when I do, they usually double check that they heard me right. I’ve gotten really good at looking like I have it all together. And that I’m super chill while I get it together. I am so good at giving this impression that … Continue reading
Every Wednesday morning I get to spend time in the company of a few lovely ladies. They have decided that they are serious about Jesus — not more serious or less serious than the many others who have decided they are serious about Jesus, but simply that they want to know Him more and are … Continue reading
It was a crazy week last week. I was crazy. Crazy because I was planning a community event involving, of all things, details, organizing and large numbers of people. Exactly. The stuff of nightmares, right? I could barely catch my breath, and my prayers came out all gaspy and disjointed, like my soul was all … Continue reading
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