Once there was a tree…
“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.” Have you read The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein? Last year I picked it up again after years of letting […]
Seeing & Creating Beauty
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” Ralph Rudolph Emerson.
Crying with Jesus
Do you have friends you’ve never met? I do. I “meet” them online. I have the privilege of peaking into their beautiful and wise hearts through blogs and Tumblrs. It […]
A Bit of Earth
If you were to look at me right now you’d see my grass-stained jeans, messy hair, and dirty fingernails; and if you were to smell my hands you’d get whiffs […]
Three Questions
I came across the blog The Girl Who Cries Wolf today. It’s a collection of art and poetry by Lang Leav. Much of the poetry is sweet and I like […]
Living Quietly for Christ?
Is Paul’s urging to live quietly, mind your own affairs, and work with your hands (1 Thessalonians 4:11) only for losers? Do you feel that you’re wasting your gifts if […]
For It Is By Grace…
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no […]
Ephesians 1:11-12
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.
Spring Evening Thoughts
I’m sitting in the evening light of a spring day in the soft grass of our backyard. Wireless internet is great, isn’t it? My sock feet are cozy in the […]
Pain & Suffering
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so […]
