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Monday Morning Chai Link-Up
In the past few weeks my life has felt like an orchestra. A series of events, unrelated, coming together to produce one single message: I lack. I fail. I fall. Often. I am woman and yet still very much little girl needing my Daddy’s guardrails. But to stay beholden to...
Monday Morning Chai, First Edition
Practice. All day long we practice. From turning out the lights when we leave a room, to giving napkins their place in our laps and shoes their home in the shoe-basket, to speaking about the beauty of a sibling instead of their faults -- we practice. We are forever...
You Are Rich To Those Who Call
for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. Romans 10:12** I come poor, tired. Ragged. My flesh resists coming. What do I have to offer You? I reason. I have it all wrong. Something still draws me in. Maybe habit, maybe Holy alluring. Praise God for...
A Way Out
The crickets kept me company on the second Indian-summer morning in a row, where grief was my alarm clock. The window cracked as if it were spring while I sat hunched over my Bible with winter on my insides. Are you sure you picked the right girl, God? Our life is...
You Expand
Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You. Psalm 63:3** Almost daily, I am enticed to covet. When my life and calling feel too thick, green thoughts drop into my head: why couldn't I walk the road of another? Why this road Lord? But...
God of My Eyesight
Psalm 66:5 Come and see the works of God; He is awesome in His doing toward the sons of men.** Come and see -- this is the lifestyle you have called me to. To come and see You, and in so doing call others to do the same. Because when I look I get lost. When I stop,...
Your Goodness is Great
Psalm 31:19 Oh, how great is Your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have prepared for those who trust in You in the presence of the sons of men! ** Your goodness is rich, Oh my God. You pour goodness over all that is ugly and make it...
A Call To Those Who Love Words
I pass it ten times a day and think "oh, I need to water that." Poor, neglected houseplant that has traveled with me from Virginia to Missouri, through my footloose and fancy-free days to being a mother of two. And then four. This plant has seen it all. And for some...
Holy Beauty
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Psalm 29:2 ** For days now, since I've read this, I have been asking You: what is the beauty of holiness? Dropped into my mind and onto my life today, this -- nothing but You. Holiness is when all of me is lost in all of...
The Author of Dreaming
And He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. Mark 14:36** I was never intended to be sedentary, yet Only You can lift me up and out of me. When I look down -- when I stare into all that lies within me -- I get lost. Where to start?, with what still...