Three heads bend low over a first grade science book. Small Son and Tiny Daughter listen eagerly as I read simple facts about their bodies. Turn the page. I read about hair, then hands, fingers… fingerprints. Tell them that God made each person in the world to have a different pattern in their fingerprints. (Have… Read More Dear One Who Feels Like What You Do Doesn’t Matter…
It’s a Canada winter. Trees shiver in the subzero temperatures, missing their coats of leaves. The colour brown pervades the landscape. Dirty snow waits for a fresh coat of ‘snow paint’ to restore its beauty. The ground is hard, refusing any attempt at seed placement or support for a bloom. The sun shines, but doesn’t… Read More The Season of Bare (Five Minute Friday)
As a little girl growing up in North Carolina, I used to like to watch our many families of gray squirrels as they scurried about burying nuts for the winter. I used to wonder how they would ever find all of those nuts when they got hungry. The truth? They don’t find them all! They… Read More Secrets of A Hoarder
We walk hand in hand, Tiny Daughter and I. Walk briskly to avoid the biting wind, our boots crunching on a layer of freshly fallen snow. Tiny Daughter is chattering about some change that she possesses, that she received from Small Son. How she wants to buy some chocolate for Brother “and for you, Mom.”… Read More Stories of Grace: Surrender
Today I’m sharing with you one of my very favourite quotes, that reflects where I want my heart to be. “Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say “do it again!” And the grown-up person does it again until he… Read More The Stuff Life is Made Of: Again (Five Minute Friday)
