People Over Perfection
At least once a day, we hear a soft knock on our front door. We’ve only been in our new house a few weeks, but we have already come to...
Restoration
On my hands and knees, scrapping years of paint off the trim, I thought about the children who have played there and my own daughter who...
Thinning & Pruning
The Christian season of Lent began last week. Lent begins with Ash Wednesday and ends with the celebration of Easter. Lent is my favorite...
Birdsongs
We were outside. The late afternoon sun glittered off the melting snow. I shoveled snow and listened to my daughter’s giggles and...
Renewal
Our family recently returned to Colorado after a ten-day road trip to visit family back in the midwest. It was a beautiful, harried mess...
New Beginnings
There is just something about Autumn that feels like new beginning. Perhaps it’s a back to school feeling; clean chalkboards, freshly...