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The Happy, Humble Work of a Mother
Today I’m writing over at Domestic Kingdom about the happy kind of humble. I know what it’s like to go about my humble tasks with a heart full of pride. I wear a long face and use a solemn voice to...
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Mothers and Daughters
Today is my grandma’s birthday. Isn’t she pretty? She turns 80 today. Whenever we came to visit she let me put lots of sugar on my Cheerios. Way more than my mom let me sprinkle on top. That’s the...
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The Dance {a poem}
We watch in delight as the Father and Son and the Spirt each dance in turn. As the glorious dance goes on and on, He picks up the hand of the dirtiest one who won’t dance, who won’t bend, who steps out...
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When the Word Feels Dry and Distant
I just put the girls down for a nap (miraculously at the same time) and read the perfect blog post. It felt like sitting next to a good friend who faithfully pointed me to God and showed how his word...
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The Gospel for Anxious Moms (and other people who worry too)
The whole thing was so ridiculous I could hardly take my toddler seriously. My husband and I were bringing food from the kitchen to the table when she panicked that she wouldn’t get dinner. I hollered...
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When You’re Tired
After a week of the stomach flu at our house I am exhausted. Please don’t wish for more hours in the day, I’m staggering by dinner. I go to bed knowing that the sticky dishes will still fill the sink...
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My Misconception about Humility
“… but in humility consider others better than yourselves…” Philippians 2:3 Paul doesn’t mean that we ought to consider others better than ourselves in the sense of being better cooks, or better Bible...
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Learning to Long for Spring
It’s the end of March and we’re still waiting for the snow on the park swings to melt. Spring comes slowly this year. “Is it warmer today?” Miriam asks. “Come quickly, Spring!” I say. And familiar...
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Proclaiming the Gospel at the Breakfast Table
Our family doesn’t usually sit down together for breakfast. But that morning it seemed like the most efficient way to get everyone fed. It seemed that way until I had finished eating and my one year...
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Explaining Easter to My Two Year Old
I’ve been stumped trying to explain Easter to my daughter. We’ve read the story in her little Bible story book but I can tell it’s not connecting. She (thankfully) has no concept of death, so how do I...
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The World Will Call You a Fool. But it Isn’t True.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot, martyred missionary to the Waodani people in Ecuador
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Can Two Year Old’s Learn Anything from Sermons?
Awhile ago I posted Three Tips for Including Children in Church from Noel Piper’s book, Treasuring God in Our Traditions. Then, on Saturday night we listened to the live stream of John Piper’s last...
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Is Church worth it if your babies scream and you miss the sermon?
Easter Sunday I sat between my two daughters while we sang knowing full well that I would be leaving before the sermon started. There have only been a handful of times that my daughters both stayed in...
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A Window into Our Marriage
I loved getting to share a bit about our marriage at my friend’s blog, Ever After Blueprint, today. Andrea and her friend, Laura, share about their love for making their homes beautiful. Some times...
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Because of Easter I can Serve with Joy!
There we all were sitting on the living room floor when Annie Mae, my one year old, plunked Cinderella in the driver’s seat of the garbage truck. I smiled thinking that somewhere in the fine print of...
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Good and Pleasant
Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! Psalm 133:1 And every mother says, “Amen!” But playing together is hard for grown-up’s too. We pretend it hurt worse than it did when...
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When our taxes pay for …
I originally posted this on election day. But since it’s actually about taxes and I’ve been thinking about how our taxes pay for things I hate, I thought I would repost part of it today. You can read...
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Join us tomorrow morning!
Tomorrow I will be sharing with a group of mom’s at our local church about walking humbly with our God. So if you noticed a lot on here about humility recently, that’s why. You are welcome to join and...
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Do you need help knowing how to read the Old Testament?
Bruce Waltke has had a huge influence on me, especially his commentary on Proverbs. So when I was beyond excited to come across this video series about how to read the Old Testament. Each segment is...
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The Guilty Bystander
I closed the book and with shaking hands placed it on the table next to me. I was the only one awake. Often I had wondered as I heard stories of men and women who hid the Jews if I would have had the...
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