How does it feel to have the news out there? This is the main question we’re getting after sharing about our mid life awakening and here’s our real time response: We feel scared and relieved. We feel sad and hopeful. You see, this news of moving to Nashville wasn’t one decided overnight, but after years of inklings and listening and refusing to …
Let’s Step in Front
Much of life can feel like we’re chasing after it, reacting, running with outstretched arms in hopes of pulling it back to real time. Wait. Come baaaaaaack. Kinda like watching a car accident in slow motion, it’s as though we know it’s coming, but aren’t sure how to respond to when it does happen. And how? Like, what do we say when life takes off like …
When God Shows Up
Sometimes I forget how God wants to show up. In the midst of dirty dishes and dust bunnies and whiny for the love, when does school start, children? hours. Sometimes I dismiss the personal ways He is inviting me to lift my head or bend my knees or crane my ear to hear Him. His heart is to invade today, to demonstrate …
Reading Nook Recs: Praying Upside Down
Let it be said that when I was in elementary school, I informed my mom, “One day, I’m going to get married in the library.” To which, she no doubt, probably smiled and suppressed laughter. Let’s be honest friends, no wedding of mine could have been contained in a please keep your voices down setting. It’s just that I’m obsessed …
Need a Friend? BE a Friend.
He had some anxiety about starting kindergarten. Not knowing a soul at the school, or how to play tetherball, or which gate to line up at- it’s tough being a kid, ya know? Change is change, regardless of age. And so the weeks leading up to “the big day” Bry and I would pray over him, pulling him close and talking …
Celebrating a Son’s 4th Birthday
Our baby. Our second son. Our Ty Christian. How is it today he holds up four sweet fingers instead of three? With Ty our family is perfectly complete. And God knows Ty is the ideal kid to be our caboose. The one that keeps us on our toes and knees. The one who gobbles up life and bravely enters situations with smiles and an …
A Prayer for the Brokenhearted
The air today, has a sense of sadness hanging in it. It’s mixed with joy at seeing out-of-town friends and their adorable boys. It holds wonder at navigating nature paths, and watching workers prepare for the butterfly farm to open in May. Yet I can’t ignore the palpable sadness I see and feel.
Marriage
April, we will celebrate our 8th Wedding Anniversary! Eight. It has a nice, even sound to it. It’s not the 5th anniversary, and certainly not a big to-do like 10, but it has a comfortable, in-the-middle-tone to its special place as our eighth year of life together. Eight fits us quite well these days. These days of God’s Best, where …