Sep 27, 2012 | god & grace
I walked around the car to open the back hatch and there it was, standing right up in the sidewalk, said the text that accompanied this photo from my dear friend, Sharon Todd Armstrong. I smiled when I saw it, she said. I needed it at that time. I’m thinking...
Sep 25, 2012 | god & grace
I love the friend who sent me this photo. I love that she is so open to grace, so ready to receive God’s blessings, so willing to look for them in the world around her. She has prayed a thousand prayers as she’s bent to collect these feathers, I know,...
Sep 18, 2012 | god & grace
It’s CreateAthon week. Which means life is very, very full—in lots of beautiful ways. And so I shall steal just a quick moment to share this little find waiting for me Sunday night, there at the edge of our pond, on the edge of this busy week: Lovely and...
Jul 18, 2012 | god & grace
Stress is a funny thing. It has the ability to take a rather average little matter and magnify it, creating a gigantic hurdle blocking your path, hindering all forward motion. Your only option is to LEAP, and so you do, and there on the other side is another hurdle....
Jul 3, 2012 | travel & adventure
Verona, he said. As in “Two Gentlemen of?” I asked. And Capulet and Montague and Where fore art thou, he said. In fact, Juliet’s balcony is there. Oh, my, I said. And we both knew it was a done deal that on the road between Venice and Como, we would...