the long winter
Maryland has had one of the coldest snowiest winters in years, or so the locals say; and this Carolina girl is not used to temperatures in the single digits or […]
Category Archives: journal
when grief and joy go hand in hand
My mom delivered seven children naturally. I witnessed four of those births. My siblings were born either at home or in a birth center. The atmosphere was calm, peaceful, sacred […]
Need of Jesus
It’s been silent here for a while and I should update, but while an update is brewing, here’s what I’ve been reading: Another Army wife gave me a book called […]
to two moms
::Unwearying Faithfulness:: For years I have watched my mom as she has mothered my siblings and me. When she looks back over those years she probably sees the things she […]
joy in the aching
We are officially in the doldrums of this deployment. R&R has come and gone, and we aren’t quite to the halfway point between R&R and my love’s homecoming. Morale ebbs […]
Jesus::Comfort and Compassion
I went to a Good Friday service today at church. It was at an inconvenient time…right in the middle of Crumb’s naptime….so I had to wake him up and then […]
God with us
38 weeks and 1 day. Crumb can come any day now and be full term. He’s just as ready to live in the world as he will be two weeks […]
God’s Faithfulness
I won’t blog every day about my journey back into quiet time and devotion…I respect your inbox. 🙂 However, in light of yesterday’s post and commitment, today’s quiet time was so […]
overflow of the heart
This adjustment to life in Italy has been harder than I thought it would be. Don’t misunderstand me…it isn’t the adjustment to marriage that has been hard. It’s just that […]
>In the Shadow of God
>Bezalel didn’t make it into the top 10 baby names for 2010, not even the top 100….I don’t even think it’ll make it into the top 10 in Israel, and […]
Ripples from Rachel 