Winter is here, and I’m unsure where Fall went I blinked, and it was gone. Now snowflakes as big as quarters fall from the sky and anyone denying Winter’s grasp must admit defeat. The trees around our home have embraced the chill. They are dumping all their leaves in preparation for a season of internal…
Month: November 2022
6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor when…
I have had a week, where nothing went as planned, and when I say as planned, I mean my plans. You know, how we go about planning our days and our weeks without much thought until the roadblocks start popping up causing us to stop and pause. Like a train running off the tracks, this…
Winter has come, and the slight brisk chill of the morning has been replaced with a hard freeze. Some mornings it’s hard to prepare to step outside, the warm fire crackling and snuggling children beckoning me to stay just a moment longer. Life is like that too, we cannot always stay in the warmth, sometimes…
The other day as my head hit the pillow and my lungs released a desperate sigh of exhaustion, I was struck with profound sadness. The day had been so long, the demands high. I struggled and failed to find balance most of the day felt like treading water and, a few times, like drowning. In…