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Last weekend, I had a mishap on my bike 🚲 and sliced open the back of my foot. My hubby has been doctoring it at home for me, and we avoided having to get stitches, but because of where it’s located, and the fact that when I walk- it shifts, healing has been a challenge.… Read more

Yesterday I was walking down the road,and this row of trees caught my eye. 🌲 🌲 🌲 Full.Lush.Healthy.Restored.As if they were never in bad shape at all. But last year— they were almost taken out. Last year, bagworms nearly destroyed them, spreading damage from one to the next,to the next,until almost the whole line had… Read more

Sometimes on this journeythere are moments we can feel like we got lost. The path that once seemed so clearall but disappears. My stomach turns and I get a sinking feeling,like the one of a young childwho has inadvertently strayed from her parentsin the wildernessand for a moment feels aloneand overwhelmedand uncertain of how to… Read more

When I was thinking on Independence Day today, an excerpt came to mind, from a passage in Isaiah (chapter 30, 15-17 MSG): This is the Word of the Lord: “Your salvation requires you to turn back to me and stop your silly efforts to save yourselves. Your strength will come from settling down in complete… Read more

Can I tell you a secret? Sometimes I doubt myself. Sometimes I doubt what God can do with a girl who falls short a lot, like me. Sometimes my feelings get messy. Sometimes I feel misunderstood. Sometimes I have to go to God a thousand times a day, get out my sketch book, ask Him… Read more

I’ve been thinking a lot on “faith like a child” in this season. We are learning to walk this way,to be totally dependent on God instead of independent, (like the “independent director” title I used to be so proud of.) To ask Him to provide for us-to be our securityinstead of settling for self-security that… Read more