Are you serious about writing this book?

It was this past May and I had signed up to participate in a webinar with one of my favorite teachers, Emily Freeman. As is typical with free things, I figured there would be some kind of pitch at the end. I wasn’t wrong. She ended the webinar sharing about membership in the writing community…

3 little things that feel big.

The little things are often big things. The small, everyday moments can be some of the sweetest. A small, trusting hand in mine. Sunshine on our faces while we sit on the porch, watching cars. My son’s easy laughter. My daughter proudly making the letter “A” for the first time. A text to remind me…

what I read, waiting for spring.

Is spring always this long in coming? As I type this, snow is coming down fast, blowing against our walls in 20 mile an hour gusts.  I’m eager for spring in a way that feels almost desparate. I long for warmth and signs of life. The winter outside feels like it reaches all the way…

7 early winter favorites.

These are some everyday things I’m loving right now. They are bringing such joy to these late fall/early winter days*. *I always want to call the time after Thanksgiving “winter,” even though my inner-calendar-loving heart knows we still have a few weeks until the winter solstice. This year, I’m just embracing that I think of…

the grace of spring days.

I think I’ve imagined that since I’ve grown in my understanding of transition and have lived through enough of them that I am somehow exempt to how it works. Or maybe I just believed the lie that because this is a “good” transition instead of something that is only hard, that I won’t experience all…

when Jesus gives us what we need instead of what we think we want.

Tomorrow will be March, the month we meet our son. It felt so far off for so long, and now it is here. I can hardly wrap my mind around that. Is it possible to feel so ready and anything but, all at once? I had so many ideas how I would spend this past…