Yes, I know I am a day late posting this, but the fireworks didn’t go off until after nine o’clock last night and we didn’t get home until nearly midnight. It was a beautiful night with young children spread about our family’s big blanket. Mostly our friends’ children. Some napping, some holding small frogs and [...]
We just had a thunderstorm pass over here and there is a mist rising up from the ground. It is evening. Someone is grilling. I can smell the sweet smell of cooking meat mingled with the smell of damp moss and tree bark. I’m alone at home. Will has taken the girls to a baseball [...]
The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and pose an obstacle to our return to God. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home. –C. S. Lewis
I am recovering from a long and somewhat emotionally draining week. Last Sunday, I received a phone call from my mother-in-law letting me know that Will’s grandfather had just passed away that morning. He was ninety-two and had not been doing well in recent weeks, so it was not totally unexpected. It was a sad [...]
I know, I know… I haven’t been very faithful in posting lately. Someone please flog me. When I first started this blog, I wanted it to be an outlet for the side of me that I felt I had been neglecting for too many years. In my younger years, I had dreams of becoming a [...]
Diarist.net: Spark Airplanes have automatic alarms that go off when they get too close to the ground. Most cars let you know when they’re running low on gas. If you could have an automatic alarm installed in your brain, what would it be for, and when would it go off? My first reaction to this [...]
For those of you who’ve decided to read along, here I am. I have a terrific headache and my children have been bickering for most of the afternoon. I can’t wait for spring to arrive. Being indoors is about to do me in. Lily has finally decided to work on her hook rug and Clara [...]
Well, here I am. I have been putting some time and thought into what I want to do with this blog, since I have been unhappy with it for quite some time. I am thinking of keeping most of my pictures in a separate web gallery and going back to actually writing here on my [...]
Our preacher gave a sermon this morning that began with what has been in the news as of late. He did not want to go into politics or finger-pointing, but made a point that has really triggered a lot of feelings I have had for a while. He commented that many Americans are justifying the [...]
Diarist.net Spark What would your motto would be for the place you’re at in your life right now? Is it different than it would have been five years ago? 10? 20? I thought this writing prompt was interesting because of my instant response to it. My first response was what it would have been five, [...]
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