My Life Archives - Page 4 of 6

Five Minute Fridays: Unexpected

November 11, 2011

Five Minute Fridays – Today’s Prompt…Unexpected UnexpectedHow you come inShining light into all my hopelessnessWas it something I did?Or is it just YouLover of creatingSurprisesRedemptionAnd hopeHow is it I can never explainThe deepest workings in my heartThe moments you step in and redirect my heartChange my life?I guess it’s all just to give youMore GloryThis…

Of Mice and Men and Pride

November 7, 2011

Prideful thoughts are kind of like mice. You know they’re there, but must of the time they stay hidden. Until one day that prideful thought grows a little too confident and goes public, like a sleek, fat mouse, suddenly waltzing across your kitchen in broad daylight like he owns the place. This is not just…

Five Minute Friday: Remember

November 5, 2011

Five Minute Fridays with Lisa JoI got to do this writing exercise/indulgence live with Lisa Jo and dozens more at Relevant last week. It was amazing!!! Five Minutes!!! with Lisa Jo If you love to write or would love to write, this is a great way to get started! Today’s prompt is… Remember…that moment when…

Thrill Therapy

November 3, 2011

There is something therapeutic about riding a Roller Coaster. As a mom, I have so much responsibility. Three small children, managing a house, cooking 3 meals a day, being a wife, running a business – so much depends on keeping it all together. Some days I feel like the Elephant in “Horton Hears a ‘Who’”…

Coming Back to Reality From Relevant

November 2, 2011

I rose at 5:30 after nursing my alarm clock. (I have found an alarm clock that you can’t hate no matter what time it goes off – a warm, cuddly, rolly-polly, snuggly little boy child who has learned to call ‘mamma!’ in the morning). No, I don’t get up this early every morning – only…

Relevant Highlight #1

October 31, 2011

Laura Booz was my favorite speaker, handsdown, at Relevant. With Ann Voskamp, Amy Andrews, Lisa Jo, and so many others, how was Laura my top pick? Because she was the most relevant to me. She’s a homeschool mommy of 3, and FULL of passion! Her enthusiasm and joy made her talks some of the most…

The Most Memorable Moment of Relevant11

October 31, 2011

I’ve just got back from a weekend in Harrisburg, PA, attending the Christian Women’s Blogging Conference, Relevant. It will take months to process and recount to you all the beauty, inspiration, and practical insight I received from this conference, but I simply can’t wait to share with you the Most Memorable Moment I exeprienced. No…

Hair-raising Post

September 30, 2011

It all started with a Mohawk…read more here

Of Tea and Seasons

August 15, 2011

I made Kombucha Tea today for the first time since Seth was born. Why, when I believe so strongly in the health benefits of this and other fermented drinks, would I quit making it for over a year? The answer is the same reason as it was in this post – “Seasons”. I was in…

Seasons to Create, or, What I dropped while I wrote a book

July 18, 2011

Some people have expressed wonderment that I wrote a book in two months. In light of this, I have decided it is high time for another dispel the pedestal post. (For more glimpses into just how human I am, check out these posts, please!) There are seasons in life, peoples. Please remember this. Especially you…

She Dances Now

June 21, 2011

She Dances Now Broken, torn, and badly twistedHeld by control, tight-fistedShe ripped herself up from her rootsAnd ran. Never knowing love and happiness,Stifled by the pain and uglinessShe knew she needed air to breath,She ran. God looked down upon her lonelinessHe’s a Father to the fatherlessHe began to make a place where she Could rest….

Of Squash and Peace Regardless

June 20, 2011

The early morning air reconciles me to being sleepless since 4am. I walk out to my yard with my Bible to meet with my God, already tasting the sweetness this quiet morning promises. . . and that’s when I see the giant squash leaves torn and shredded, strewn on the ground near the compost. My…

On Dreams and Going Backwards

June 10, 2011

Five Minute Friday’s Theme: Backwards… 1 year: I was growing achingly larger with my third child, hoping, hoping it would be a boy so I could name him Seth. 2 years: We were walking through a darling old house, falling in love and praying we’d win it at auction. 6 years: We were falling head-over…

Prayer of the Overachiever

June 7, 2011

Can you hear your own heart beatingAs you stress upon your bed?Does the sound of the life comingDrown the music in your head?Can we worship in this moment,Can He stop us, show us how?Total freedom to be joy-filledJust today, just for this hour?Not connected, not dependent,On the future’s say or power;Can the knotted neck relaxAnd…

What Love Looked Like at My House Today

April 23, 2011

Gypsy Mamma’s writing prompts help my sanity because, for just 5 min. a week, I tap into the artistic and pretend I really am a writer. Today’s prompt hit me right in the middle of analyzing the kind of love I offered my son today, and how miserably it compared to the Love God showed…

Grand Canyon

April 15, 2011

Five Minute Fridays Writing Prompt – On Distance photo taken on our honeymoon – Grand Canyon, October, 2005 The distance between…two souls can seem so, so far. The space vast, as the thousands of gulps of air between the South and North cliffs of the Grand Canyon. Every breath, sobbed, whispered, used for prayer or…