In the incredible story of Jesus’s sacrifice and triumph over death, Friday is filled with sadness and despair, and Sunday is filled with joy and wonder; but what happened on Saturday? Luke 23:56 says, “On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.” Jesus’s followers barely had time to lay his body in the tomb …
The invisible miracle of growth
I will never cease to wonder at the miracle of growth. Every time I gently bury those tiny seeds in the dark, I shake my head in amazement. How is it that these seeds grow? How is it that the process of digging, hiding and dying brings forth growth, fruit and life? As I carefully …
Inspiration in the procrastination
As Norton Juster mused in his introduction to “The Phantom Tollbooth;” Like most of the good things that have happened in my life, the Phantom Tollbooth was written when I was trying to avoid doing something else, something I was supposed to do. Some people are like that. I’m one of them. Norton Juster Are …
Through the trenches to where I am today.
I think I starting telling people I was homeschooling when my oldest was 3. I feel like I was a different person that long ago and I don’t even remember what we did for school exactly, but it was a start. Whenever I share with others that I homeschool I’ve had countless people respond by …
Shine on.
I’m more scared than I realized to launch a blog. People will be reading my words and taking them in and either being encouraged by them or judging me because of them, and that’s scary. It’s probably that fear that’s kept me in hiding for so long. But then, thanks to Jesus, I’m reminded that …
At the end of the day.
The post I am about to post is actually an old post that I wrote a year ago on my unpublished blog I had started about homeschooling. There was only one post and I didn’t even know if I wanted to keep writing because I was so determined not to be “one of those moms …
Room to breathe.
(I wrote this a few weeks ago but didn’t hit publish until now) It’s been one of those weeks. The emotionally draining ones where you wish the day was over and then realize it’s 9am. There were actually some really good times, especially getting to spend time with family we usually don’t get to see, but …
Wandering.
There is an interesting paradox involved when being a stay at home mom of four wonderful but crazy children. You have absolutely no time (or brain cells) to think about anything worthwhile, and yet you have much too much time to spend thinking while you can’t do anything else. I can’t sit down and write a …
Dead of winter.
I don’t think winter ever actually leaves my mind. When spring finally arives in May I thank God that winter is over. In July I tell the kids, “get outside, it’ll be winter before you know it and then you’ll wish you could be out in the warm, mosquitto infested outdoors.” In October I spend every …