Re-posted from March 2007. True then. True now. “God worked that out for good!” That is TRULY one of the most heard quotes around here these days. It’s a Braedenism and he uses it daily like this: “Mom, want to know what God worked out for good today for me? Well, I wanted to bring […]
life from the boneyard.
Today i was reading a new fav book (Wonderstruck by Margaret Feinberg) and one sentence sent me whirling back to 1985ish: “Many of the well-meaning but trite responses of friends and those in her faith community were more damaging than healing.” Feinberg was writing about a friend, Sophia, who suffered a sudden and life-shattering loss at […]
exhausted and changed and scarred. (a re-post)
<reading thru some old blogs and this one hit me today…wrote it in 2014…still need it in 2016.> It’s official. I’m an adult. As a kiddo, I never ever understood all the hub-bub I heard about how “painful” to holidays could be. I was like, “what the WHAT?” — how can you be sad at […]
at the campfire.
My friends reminded me today how much I luv the book Blue Like Jazz. Truly, it’s a top-5-er for me. Top 5 of all-time for me. No…seriously. If you havent read it yet, then you’re missing a huge piece of the Kris pie. Read it. Now. It truly changed the way I think about the […]
peace out.
Wow. It’s been awhile since I’ve felt bloggy…or…well, felt like publishing any bloggies, that is. Not even sure I know what I’m going to write even as I start now, but was prompted somehow to break the blog-silence tonite. It’s a weird nite, really. Its LOW 80s (or at least it feels like it) and […]
moms need moms.
So you know I’m a mom. So you know I like to write. So you might/might not know I am part of a really cool group of moms called Mommies in Connection (MIC) who get together once a month to laugh/cry/connect/encourage as we trek thru the mommy stuff. Well, this month we did a MIC […]