Journey Updates

Heart expansion <3
When we greeted our first child after a rather exhausting process of labor that caused me to take a full year before I could even speak of the possibility of a sibling for her, I felt a bursting wide in my heart of places I had no idea existed. As we did eventually decide to…

Wednesday Randoms on a quasi-snow day here in the Midwest <3
Wednesday Randoms #1 The Midwest is having a bit of a winter storm. We all went to bed last night with rather unclear expectations. Some local schools went ahead and closed, but listening to the weather caster at 10:00 was basically like: if it snows, we will have snow to deal with, but maybe it…

Aging grace-full-y <3
I was scrolling through the bazillion pictures on my phone the other day and came across one of this gem, who I still miss terribly and whose influence on my life bears fruit with regularity. She is one of an army of women who were a generation ahead of us and who walked with grace…

Ouch. ouch. ouch.
I may have to find another church to attend. Or start wearing steel toed shoes. Maybe that’s what I will do as I do love our church. But seriously. This Sermon on the Mount series is painful. And since misery loves company and I am not sure you will bother to listen to it yourself,…

Thoughts on holiness <3
Hope you are keeping warm and finding your own sunshine these gray, cold days of January! As I am reading through the Bible this year, I find notes I jotted on my last read through of this particular version in 2020. I shared one on the blog yesterday and here is the other one I…

Musing on a passage of Exodus today <3
Since I am reading through the Bible this year, you all can expect there will be days like this where I just have to share a thought from my reading. This morning I read Exodus 26-30. These passages take place on the mountain where Moses is given all manner of instructions regarding building the Tabernacle…