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
Category: Heartache & Grace
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
jotted little notes
Last week I jotted a note that simply said, ‘write the joys.’ It was a reminder to myself, in the midst of a moment in need of the reminding. I often seek to search it out, but that day I realized it’s really much more about just letting it in. The reality is the joys… Continue reading jotted little notes
‘CONGRADULATIONS’
It was just a sign. I had passed it on the way to work a hundred times. It was always updated to reflect an upcoming holiday, a happening at the church it was attached to, or an inspirational message for passersby. But that day last week, it simply had a play on words: 'CONGRADULATIONS.' A… Continue reading ‘CONGRADULATIONS’
Finding My 313 