The morning is quiet, simple, dark. I wake early, the 5:00 hour preferably, to be in the quiet, the simple, the dark. I arrive there, coffee cup in hand, laptop, well, in my lap, sitting in the still long before the day has any chance to go sideways on me. These are my moments, I tell myself, … [Read more...] about the inner workings of a marriage that’s real
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what to do when gratitude is hard {free printable}
I do think it's going to be okay. Eventually. Just not now. We were having yet another conversation about the house and the boxes and the paycheck and the move and the girls and the season and the unexpectedness everywhere. We were talking about the future and the hopes and the dreams and … [Read more...] about what to do when gratitude is hard {free printable}
when love expands
I didn't want to leave you. I knew you would cry, I knew I would cry, I knew ripping off the band-aid and walking out that door would hurt. I ugly-cried when we got in the car, assuring your Daddy through the tears that I did, in fact, want to be with him. But see, my girls, I love you … [Read more...] about when love expands
let’s live this life well : verse cards {free printable}
Sometimes, before I am even aware of it, an entire day has passed. Sometimes, before I am even aware of it, my baby has turned into a toddler. Sometimes, before I am even aware of it, it's been an entire week before I give Jesus any significant thought. Does that ever happen to you? … [Read more...] about let’s live this life well : verse cards {free printable}
when god wrote us a new story {part 2}
::: yesterday i wrote on telling your story. this is our story. this is what it looked like for us. Sometimes when God moves, He is obvious, and just maybe this will help you to pay attention and notice his footprints over your world ::: Right now we have been married for 9 years. We live in … [Read more...] about when god wrote us a new story {part 2}
on paying attention to the story of our life
You know when you keep hearing the same thing over and over... and over? And it's from unrelated events and distant people and certain places that aren't connected? And you just have this sense that by the third or fourth time of hearing it that you might need to start paying attention? I think … [Read more...] about on paying attention to the story of our life