When I was putting on my eyeliner the other day, I noticed that although I wasn’t in a shadow, I wasn’t getting the benefits of full, direct light. So I tilted my head just a touch and I was able to see so much better.
I thought about this as … Read More >>
Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. 1 Peter 2:7 NIV
Faith lessons my daughter taught me…she’s twenty years old now, so there are enough stories to fill a book already! (or two!) Here’s one of my favorites:
“Mom, Mom, come over here!” My twelve-year-old daughter excitedly … Read More >>
While my husband drove us home from church, I sat irritated in the passenger seat. The sermon was amazing as usual – all about expecting “greatness” from God. This reminder used to encourage me; but after six years of waiting for God to publish my first book, I felt disillusioned.… Read More >>
Our nativities are beautiful.
Even when we briefly lament that there was “no room for them in the inn” and that Jesus had to be born in a stable, our nativities are clean, peaceful, idyllic. We imagine the animals keeping watch and the wonder as the shepherds come. … Read More >>
I remember exactly why we bought them.
They were not on this newly pregnant couple’s budget, but I wanted a Nativity that this child and any others to come could touch. Two more followed and touch they did. They imagined and played with this set as if they were there. … Read More >>
