I pushed the keyboard away, frustrated. The words were jerking and jolting forward, then dropping dead on the page. I got up and roamed the house, grabbing an empty dish here, shelving a stray toy there. It wasn’t my body that felt weary, but my mind, and my soul. Ever since we’d come back from … Read moreA Slow Summer Sabbath
“In the beginning, God created…” These are the first words of the Bible, and the first thing God chose to tell us about himself: he makes things. One of the next things we know about God is that he made us, people, in his own likeness. So God created manin his own image;he created him … Read moreA Shout-Out to Your Creativity
I recently wrote about beginning to learn how to make my home beautiful, and why this matters to me. I have begun to realize how much simple happiness it brings me, and because beauty is not fluff or “extra” to God. It’s intentional, and meant to delight.
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I was honored to have this essay accepted for the Kindred Mom Healthy Soul series, published in April, 2019. Kindred Mom is an online community of women dedicated to helping moms thrive in, and celebrate the small victories of, messy and beautiful motherhood. “What would you know about a healthy soul?” my inner critic hisses as I sit … Read moreWhat I Need to Remember When My Soul is Sick