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Capturing Simplicity
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Our growing family had outgrown the ranch-style house we called home. A two-story, home was our long, awaited destination. This suburban house seemed tailor-made for our needs. Floor-to-ceiling windows released our minds from the confines of the indoors. And the neighbors had a botanical garden in full view from upstairs – a feast for the eyes!
A typical day was interrupted when Monarch butterflies cascaded up the side of our home in full view through our new, huge windows. Next door, they engulfed a bush, in our neighbor’s yard – a ‘butterfly bush’.
The kids and I ditched our schoolbooks in search of the obvious!
While our children were caught up in the wonders of creation, I was caught up in the heart of our Creator. When the Lord directed us to buy this home and enabled the purchase – He knew! The former owner would build-on, adding windows to bring the outside into our classroom of a home. He knew – creation’s rhythm would send waves of Monarchs over us. He knew our quiet neighbor would plant this rare bush to attract them . He knew, we have a little boy, with a big net and bigger dreams of studying insects – entomology – as a man. Continue reading…
What’s Needed When Embarking on Motherhood
The train moves slow.
The children, all six, dangle happy out windows. I fumble for our tickets.
Look for answers I can’t find.
The train lurches and I reach for a seat and a boy grins at me trying to hold on. When did all their limbs become long?
When did I turn and miss that all the days are the destination?
Two brothers stack, hands on shoulder, leaning to see down the track. I grip a seat and watch them, watch it all passing by in shades of green and indigo and always shadows.
Our firstborn, he sits near the back of the car, hand propping chin, pensive, pondering. Man-like. This is what the youngest of six asked for her sixth birthday: to ride a train.
I can feel it even now, how it shuddered when we pulled away from the stop.
I ask if I can sit beside her and she breaks into nodding smile, pulls up onto the Farmer’s lap, and my hand brushes his knee and hers and all I want to do is cup the face of him who began this ride with me, hold his face gentle between my hands and beg: How do you turn trains right around? How did we get here already? Why does it all speed by in a blur? Or is it me who is doing this to life? I need to know this.
How do we get back? Continue reading…
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The Heart of A List Maker
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The Gift of God’s Word
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Don’t Listen to the Grey Questioner
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When a Band Aid Is Not Enough
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Deepening Friendships (Upon Leaving My Friends)
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