from an article originally posted April 17, 2014…
Thank you Ann—you cannot know the reach of your love in my life. I had heard the murmuring, the cheering, the championing of your words long before they met my eyes. I’m given to cynicism, and I wasn’t sure if we would be friends. My sister in law met terrible blow after terrible blow one year, and she sent me to your blog. She told me they were getting her through her dark season.
originally posted New Year’s 2016…
My social media feeds have been inundated this week with ideas for how to make this year my best year yet by offering new year’s resolution ideas that span diet and exercise programs to reading the entire Bible in a year to book-reading programs to simply being more productive. Taking control of the new year before it takes control of me. The suggestions go on and on. And then, of course, there is the perspective that we should be working to better ourselves every day, all day—not just for the sake of a new year.
From an article originally posted April 15, 2014…
Today as my dear friend Jen drove away to catch a plane, I felt so thankful for my time next to her. She is a gift of honesty, heart sharing, and love. We spent the weekend living beside one another as we had once done when our firstborns were babies. It was a wonderful weekend.
from an article originally posted April 15, 2014…
Oh my dear summer,
Hot days, late nights, long slow mornings of sleep and coffee and starting slow—I can hardly wait for you to arrive. We need to slow our pace, connect in the hot, meet over a calendar that is open. I long for the close connection that a huge amount of time together brings.
Be it in the in-between of Christmas morning and the hope of a new year. Or in hospital hallways. Or in places that only you and Jesus dare go. His light is not lost.
