Those were the words she sent that immediately brightened this gray and dreary day here in the northwest. The rain started early and is staying late, and my body is slowly recovering from whatever knocked me down and out this weekend. It’s a good kind of day to snuggle up with a mug of tea… Continue reading So very blessed from Jake’s ‘YES’
Category: Difficult Days
Jake
Today marks three years that you’ve been gone Jake. Gone from this earth, but not from our hearts. I miss you every day. I see so many things I want to share with you, experience so much I want to tell you in a Sunday call, find so many reminders of you in my every… Continue reading Jake
joy in translation
“…The despair of that night was necessary so that, three days later, a reason for hope now, and fullness of joy later, could be offered to all.” Julie Ackerman Link, writing for Our Daily Bread, paraphrased this from John 16:33, and it resonated strongly (not just for the 33!) but in the timing of it,… Continue reading joy in translation
the Christmas boxes
As a military family, we moved a lot. Family and friends learned quickly to pencil us in, or risk whiting out their address books a dozen times or more. Sometimes we’d be given a weight allowance for those moves, and we’d have to spend time estimating how much a bike or a drum set weighed,… Continue reading the Christmas boxes
Finding My 313 