Sep 9, 2020 | Moments of Grace, god & grace
IT HAS BEEN a long time since I have experienced such a surround of feathers. Unexpected though they always are, it is a phenomenon that began for me in 2011, in the last months of my mother’s life. Walking that difficult road with someone you love is hard,...
Jun 5, 2020 | Moments of Grace, god & grace
I AM NOT SURE what to say, what is mine to say. There is so much uncertainty. And also now, so much unrest. Then this scrolls by on Instagram, and the sentiment makes me stop. What if 2020 isn’t cancelled? What if it’s the year we’ve been waiting...
Dec 6, 2019 | god & grace
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, Hannah Brencher, a writer and blogger I adore, wrote a beautiful post about the pressure she feels in the inevitable rush to Christmas. It’s a topic that is neither shocking nor eye-opening; I’ll bet you’ve felt the same pounding...
Nov 27, 2019 | god & grace
We’d planned it for a while, this trip to the mountains for Thanksgiving week, and we both knew it would do our souls well. It always does. There is a sweet gravity in these hills that anchors me, that sets my feet on solid ground and holds them there, working...
Oct 5, 2019 | god & grace
WE’VE BEEN CLEANING up, clearing out, readying for a change we’ve known for a while was coming. We’re empty nesters now, you see, and we simply don’t need the space. I love our home, our pretty yard, I love the vast collection of things which...
Sep 18, 2019 | god & grace
Canada’s Elk River WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, I learned to fish on my great-grandaddy’s boat. Every vacation we traveled from our home in Virginia to his retirement home in Florida, and my fondest memories are of being with him on the Lady Catherine (the...
