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May 16, 2012
Sharing the Days
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It’s just nine in the morning, and I’m wishing to hear the garage door sliding shut, meaning Trenton is home, his bike parked. And I’ve never told him, because I’m too embarrassed of needing him... Read More + |
Dec 19, 2011
It's About Point of View
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Find a way to change your point of view and that will change…everything. My boy and I creep into the classroom and look all around. We are at a digital photography class—part of a program to... Read More + |
Dec 1, 2011
Community Post: Having Someplace to Go Is Home
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The plaque doesn’t match anything in the room. In fact, it looks out of place in an already cluttered spot. So during last-minute straightening and dusting this past week, I snatched the plaque... Read More + |
Oct 6, 2011
Community Writing Project: Word Portraits
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Aunt Gladys seemed more ready for Heaven than anyone I ever knew, but even when her body begged to go, she demanded more time on Earth. She told us that she was determined to outlive her four... Read More + |
Sep 8, 2011
Community Post: What NOT To Ask Your Kids
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Laura Parker realized one day that the question she was asking her children -- "Did you have fun today?" -- was the wrong one entirely. Read how she's changing her question ... and her... Read More + |
Aug 10, 2011
Community Post: Scaffolding
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Houses in need of repair often require scaffolding. And -- network blogger Jeanne Damoff writes -- so do marriages. She shares what it means to build a house, rock-solid. Read More + |
Jun 29, 2011
The Gift of Unanswered Questions
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She asks her hardest questions at bedtime, when we flop open the pages of Scripture atop her flowered quilt. We flip through pages of her Adventure Bible, rustling like onion skins between our... Read More + |
Apr 13, 2011
Letting Go
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Somehow it happens. Between listening to bedtime stories and skinned knees and first dates and college and a wedding, and then you’re the mom telling bedtime stories and kissing skinned knees... Read More + |
Feb 9, 2011
On My Honor, I Will Try
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I spread the cookie-order forms flat on the kitchen table, smooth the wrinkles and do some quick figuring. I’m no math whiz, but I know improbability when I see it. I exhale one long breath,... Read More + |
Jan 5, 2011
First Flight
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“Is it skeh-wee?” my three year-old son Jackson asked. “What, sweetie?” I replied. “Going in ‘da air,” he said. “No. It’s not too scary.” I held his plump hand in mine as we rushed down... Read More + |
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Daily Reflection From Laity Lodge
Add to the Beauty
During the past several days, I have been reflecting on various implications of a passage in Ezekiel 41 in which God reveals his plans for beautiful decorations of the temple in Jerusalem. I began... Read More +
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