If you are up, like me, at 2 a.m., wrestling with questions that do not seem to have answers, tired of trying to drown out your own thoughts so you can finally get some sleep, welcome to this post. Get up and join me at my kitchen table. It is soooo quiet. I just got…
Tag: Christian living
Unfolding
It is such a mercy that life unfolds before us. Ten years ago, if I had seen a photograph of my future-self this morning, driving along in a 15-passenger van with six children ages nine and under, I would have asked what any other stranger wants to know: Are they all mine?! And the answer…
Surrender: Listening for the Song
Our baby is 3 months old now. We have settled into our new roles and are working ourselves into a more predictable pattern of living. Life as a mother of five small children is a blur. Every day has its own rhythm. Sometimes it is like a song. Sometimes it is total chaos. Last week was particularly hard…
Longing
Longing. This word won’t leave me alone. It first jumped out of the pages of Mere Christianity (by C.S. Lewis) a few weeks ago, and since then, it has worked itself into every book, every movie, and every mini-drama of my life. The word itself can give me the feeling. (((Do you know what I mean?)))…