noticing and responding to God in our everyday life
I will dare to bring beauty to a world of gray. I will dare to live in the messy middle, where courage and hope come alive. I will dare to be myself, even when voices say I’m not enough. I will dare to color outside the lines when redemption is at stake. I will dare […]
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“Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer We were sitting around our living room last night and I asked if anyone wanted to write my post for today. I loved the topic […]
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We have a painting in our house. It is a woman, tenderly holding a baby, standing at the edge of the ocean. We bought it on our honeymoon- a beautiful combination of our island vacation and the dreams for the future. It holds more meaning to me than the average person looking at it. For […]
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This afternoon I stared at the sheer volume of books on our bookshelves. I love books. My husband loves books. We’ve got a lot of books. And I thought of all those words and ideas and opinions held in those friends. I have taken in lots of words over my life. Written words. Spoken words. […]
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Day 20! That means we are 2/3 of the way there. Which seems like a good time to check in on my focus. When I started this journey, the idea was to write for 31 days on seeing beauty in our everyday, doing dishes, going to work kind of life. Together we have seen beauty […]
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“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.” Robert Browning The rhythm of the seasons. One of the most beautiful rhythms I know. Planting. Growing. Harvesting. Resting. Sometimes I want to rush, “no more winter” my plea. But deep in […]
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“I have an idea Mama. Let’s each go up to the buffet and try something we have never had before.” We are sitting at his favorite Chinese restuarant. I soak up the minutes and his chatter. Jumping from school to baseball to the food we are eating and back again. Its just the two […]
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“The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is . . . that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.” Friedrich Nietzsche “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction” is a book by Eugene Peterson in […]
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“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” Gandhi This week we have looked at Beauty in Work (here), Beauty in Play (here) and now today, Beauty in Rest. Ahh, rest. Something that we long for. Something we know we need. Something we so often do NOT choose. Probably of the three, rest is […]
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“Men do not quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because they quit playing.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Do you associate play with youthfulness? I wrote last week on playfulness and it does seem children have much to teach us. Play does bring out something in us that doesn’t always have a way […]
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“There are two kinds of people….workers and whiners.” Bob Gillgrist My father in law has lots of axioms. I first heard this one when Rob and I were dating, and I have to tell you, I was a bit concerned. Because I didn’t know if I would be called a ‘worker‘. And I didn’t like […]
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I wonder how your Monday is starting off? It has a reputation of course for not being an agreeable day. Not typically our vote for the day of the week most filled with beauty. So as you begin your week, in whatever state of emotion or number of items on your to do list, here […]
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And this button if you would like to read last years:
