Today, I want to introduce you to something close to my heart, something you've been reading in bite-sized pieces since 2008, a story simultaneously just beginning and one that's been decades in the making. A story only God could be writing. Today, I introduce you to my friend, Pamela Piquette, and the brand new ministry …
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Where I Live
I live in a small midwestern town on an acre and an eighth of gently rolling hills in a sprawling older subdivision filled with towering pines. On Hamilton Court. Just off Hamilton Drive. We've lived in this elongated ranch for nearly twenty years, raising five kids in a town too small for a post office, …
You Are…
I am honored to be partnering with the beautiful, grace-filled Lauren McLeod, the heart and soul behind this project, to launch #IAmHis today, the first in a series of images designed to remind each of us that we are precious, treasured, accepted, loved. Today, we invite you to reach out and remind the weary, the …
Thirteen — A Story of Community
A little more than two years ago, I packed my secondhand cheetah print suitcase, boarded a plane and headed for a remote Texas canyon cut by the Frio River. I was excited to be attending my first writers’ conference, and nervous. I wasn’t an author, wasn’t writing a book, had no plans to write a …
Richest Love
Beautiful Sunday blessings to you, Friends! What grace that we are loved beyond imagining by the One who IS love, whose love never changes, never fails, never ends, whose love is wholly undeserved, and beyond all limits of time and space.
Called by Name
“The stories that penetrate life’s routines are the stories that connect humans to each other.” Matt Knisely When I first learned of Matt Knisely’s new book Framing Faith, I was intrigued. Matt’s an award-winning photojournalist of twenty Emmys and the Edward R. Murrow Awards, whose work I admire and whose words inspire, challenging me to …
A Rare and Precious Gift
“Nothing is more personal or intimate than listening.” Matt Knisely, Framing Faith A couple of years ago, my spunky, speaks-her-mind, mother-in-law sat at one end of our kitchen island talking football when our middle daughter and her friend walked in. Anna hugged her grandmother and introduced her friend, Anthony, a high school football wide receiver. …
Every Story Matters
“I am a hoarder of moments.” Matt Knisely’s words caught me in the very first paragraph of his new book, Framing Faith, for I’ve been living in moments, those overlooked glimpses of eternity tucked into every breath, every heartbeat of creation, for thirteen years. It’s why I pick up my camera. To seek beauty beyond …
Finding Home
I’ve never had to go far to experience God. Just a few steps outside my own back door. Because I feel Him in spring lilacs drenched in rain, in verdant green and winter white, in thunder and in rain. I feel Him as I break up winter-hardened earth, pull weeds, and harvest peas. As I …
Choosing to See
Today I am choosing to see, to look beyond the ordinary for the extraordinary -- the breath of God in every moment, His love infusing every breath, His still, small voice echoing in every heartbeat. Will you join me? Let's encourage one another to see, to really see, sharing in the comments where we each …
In Search of Him
Words are where I begin to understand, gain perspective, to process this life we’re living, where I seek the Deep and discover God in the messy midst. Words are where I feel my heart beat, where I seek hope unfolding like dew-wet wings waiting to fly. Because we have five precious kids. Four with significant, …
From A Spring-Fed Well
Agape, to love without borders, unconditionally, expecting nothing in return. To love without prompt from a spring-fed well, regardless, in spite of, right through the messy midst of, saying with the heart, “There is nothing you can do to make me love you more, and nothing you can do to make me love you less.” …
Savor the Hard Stuff
I woke this morning to a message from a friend, “Savor the hard stuff.” Not words she’d wanted to send. But words God had laid on her heart, clearly, unmistakably. Three times in thirty minutes. And on faith, she sent them to me. “I LOVE you!” I immediately typed back, because she’d sent exactly the …
A Gift for You
A few weeks ago, Amy Breitmannand Tammy Hendricksmeyer of Outside the City Gate approached me and asked if I'd be interested providing photography for their first e-book, Pieces of Faith, A Mosaic of Sojourners. "Yes! Of course! Absolutely!" was my immediate reply from the rolling hills of Elkton, Oregon, where I was attending a weeklong …
Whispers of Eternity
To tender love is to spill Christ, however distorted, shadowed, refracted in these shards of clay, whispers of eternity oozing through fissure, chink and gap, staining Adam's dust in infinite array.
Uphold You
Encouragement from the One who created you, who knew you before the beginning of time, and loves you beyond all human understanding, the God who gave up His life for yours, to redeem you and every hour the locusts have eaten, who forgives you again and again and again, forever, who pours out grace upon …
Celebration of Color
God is the artist of our souls, breathing life into His own, each a broken melody, together, a harmonic whole. Sunday Blessings, Friends!
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