If you have been reading my blog for a while, you might remember that my friend Heather and I were reading through Sally Clarkson’s Own You Life a while ago – a year? two years? (she’s since moved her blog!) I don’t really remember. It’s been a while. I keep looking at Own Your Life…
For years and years my favorite Bible verse has been the one in the header to my blog, 2 Samuel 14:14. The verse, in the ESV translation says, “We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he…
So, I’ve been slacking a little bit with reading this book. Heather has posted on Chapter 5 & 6, here. I hadn’t posted on 6 yet. Neither of us posted on Chapter 7 last week. Then we decided to start doing two chapters a week. Huh. We’ll see how that works out for us. So,…
For the past several years one of the words I’ve heard at the homeschool convention is wonder. Cultivating a sense of wonder. Wondering about something. Woner as awe. Teaching children to wonder about their world. Seeing and hearing things that are wonder-ful. But, I don’t think I really picked up on the idea until I…
If you’ve read this blog for any length of time (or know me in person), you probably know that I love sports. I love Ohio State football (and really any college football) and basketball. I enjoy watching the Cincinnati Reds when I can (we dropped cable this winter, so that’s less often). Our kids…
For Today… May 4, 2015 … May the force be with you … Outside my [OPEN] window… is a sunny, pleasant, birdsong filled morning. I am thinking… about the coming week and all its fun! I am thankful… for our congregation, pastors, and the delight we have in celebrating God’s work in our lives. We enjoyed…
I keep being a little afraid of what Sally is going to say in the next chapter, expecting that it will be the whammy chapter of “you’re not doing enough for Christ you slacker.” Even though I know she isn’t like that and is all that is encouraging. I suspect it is because I’ve known…
Oh, wow. This chapter totally hit me in my house. All my insecurities, my doubts of self-worth, my negative self perceptions. Every single negative thought and word in this chapter, plus some, I can name as mine. I bet I’m not the only one. I don’t mean this to be a pity-post, so we won’t…
This post is late because I was afraid of the topic after I read the epigraph from Leonardo da Vinci: You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself … the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment … And…
I’ve never loved the concept of heroes. I’ve never wanted to be a hero, nor really “had” heroes. Well, maybe Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew, but not the Superhero kind and not the so-and-so can do no wrong, I want to be just like that person, kind. I like to pick and choose. There have…