Dec 9, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
IT WAS EARLY October and Suzann and I were strolling along Main Street, enjoying the Fall Fling festivities in our small Southwest Virginia hometown. We stopped by a booth that featured pretty pottery and gorgeous wood products and we chatted with the young couple...
Dec 7, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
Originally posted on The Daily Grace on November 30, 2020 THIS WEEKEND we secured, lit and (mostly) decorated our Christmas tree. My husband and I agree this is a major accomplishment because we’ve been married 18 years and he understands the #1 rule of the...
Dec 5, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
FOR MANY YEARS I’ve followed Hannah Brencher, a questioner, a seeker, a believer who holds incredible wisdom for her (relative to me) young age. Among other things, she offers a beautiful Advent series to which I always subscribe, and this morning’s email...
Dec 4, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
I’VE SUNG IN a choir much of my life, first as a child at Gladeville Presbyterian in Wise, Virginia, and for the last 30 years at Providence Presbyterian in West Columbia, SC, the congregation I joined when, newly divorced and suddenly a single mom, I took my...
Dec 2, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE to you Stella, Edwin and Ellie—the three who may well have had the finest time of all when we gathered for a family Thanksgiving atop beautiful Cats Mountain. Stella, or “Lella,” as sweet 19-month-old Posey calls her, belongs with Tim...
Nov 30, 2025 | 30 Days of Joy
IT IS A PRACTICE that brings depth to the season and calm to my soul; a daily watching for the promise that when darkness surrounds, light is to come. This is Advent, to me. It’s what we all want, is it not? What we need? To hang on? When life is hard, when the...
