Category Archives: Beauty

Dressing Our Mess

  “Every time we get dressed we tell the story of the Fall of humanity,” is a statement one of my professors made that has stuck with me (Dr. Glenn Kreider, DTS Fall semester 2011). Because in the Garden of Eden before the Fall, Adam and Eve were naked andRead the Rest…

Dealing with Insecurity

I have finicky hair. After my last baby, everything began to get wonky. It fell out, the curls went from curly to I’m-not-sure-what-I’m-looking-at kind of hair, it got thinner, and just plain weird. One morning, I was simply drying my wonky hair to head out to an All-Staff meeting atRead the Rest…

Who Me?

Then Jesus said to Simon, “don’t be afraid; from now on you will catch men.”  Luke 5:10 (NIV) Imagine how Simon (Peter) must have felt when, after an arduously long and unsuccessful night of fishing, Jesus stepped into his boat! And told him to go back out fishing! I don’tRead the Rest…

Ceramic or Tile?

Mud season is here, and this season always makes me very thankful for my husband. You see, he is a very wise man. One of his smart ideas was to tile much of the front part of our house, and only carpet the living room. In fact, we have tileRead the Rest…

Finding My Awe

I have lost my awe. I have lost the moments that take my breath away when the only true response is an “Oh!” It would be easy to pass that off with the fact that I don’t live somewhere that routinely takes my breath away. I am in a townRead the Rest…