Choosing to trust
Living with teenagers is like sailing a small ship on a rolling ocean. You have to constantly adjust to keep your balance. It’s full of surprises: like last week, when my daughter asked if I’d [...]
Daily Bread
For the last fifteen years or so, my husband and I have been self-employed. Buying our own health insurance, working odd hours. Chaos is normal, but so is freedom. The flexibility worked for us as [...]
people who “get” you
One of the greatest blessings of this life is finding people who are like-minded, who "get" you, in all your quirkiness and eccentricity. Last spring I found a group of such people, and became a [...]
Slow down, it’s summer
Can I just say how much I enjoy summer? I'm writing on my laptop with the windows open to the evening chorus of songbirds. It's warm but not so hot we need the air conditioning. [...]
Do you cook on Sabbath?
As we listened to a message on Sabbath keeping a couple of weeks ago, my friend leaned over and whispered in my ear, "do you cook on Sabbath?" It should be noted that I love [...]
Flowers for Mother’s Day
I'm not a fan of store-bought flowers, even florist-bought flowers. But I love having flowers in the house. I'm also not a big fan of Mother's Day--or I should say, I'm not keen on the [...]
Joy in the midst of change…
My friend Linda Bryant has a great little blog that you should check out. I got to do a guest post last week, so stop by and check it out, but read her other stuff, [...]
Steps toward Sabbath.
I'm guest blogging on my friend Anita Lustrea's website today about how to get started on building a Sabbath habit. You can start reading the article here: Life sometimes seem to spin past us so [...]
Thankful
What a week. I love to cook, so this holiday, for me, is all about the food, not the shopping. So I cooked all day Wednesday and half of Thursday, and then we ate leftovers [...]
It’s a beautiful day…
My son Aaron waded gingerly into the murky water of the pond in the front lawn of our church. Along with hundreds of other people, he was getting baptized. In a large church like ours, [...]