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At The Well: Guest Post

Read this guest post here, At The Well.

Designs, Quotes and Scriptures

My Baby Daddy: A Tribute

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother” ~ Rev. Theodore Hesburgh My husband, and best friend…their daddy, and hero. I overhear them in the garage.  He is guiding the little boy whose lips might possibly be the most kissable in all the world – in how […]

Faith, Family, Marriage

{Incredible} Beer Bread

{Disclaimer: this bread is wildly delicious and may cause a spirit of gluttony to overtake you.  Double the batch} My hubby stumbled upon this scrumptious recipe last week while trying to find excuses to use my birthday present: a sexy, black Kitchenaid Mixer. He purchased it for me with purely unselfish motives, of course {cough, […]

Food

My Hacker Man and The Historical Village

In case you missed it {or thought maybe I had vanity issues and liked to talk about myself in the third person}…my husband hacked my blog yesterday.  He actually hacked it.  Compliments of Live Writer. As a birthday surprise, none the less. He informed me, only minutes after I woke up…and minutes before he passed […]

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O Hacker… er um… Happy Birthday!

  Today is a very special day. She turns thirty! The woman of my dreams is thirty. I love it. I love you babe! Not a day goes by that I am not amazed at what God has done in and through you. Your love has forever captivated my heart. Your joy is positively contagious, […]

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30 Things {You Might Not Know} About Me…

…and quite possibly, I should note, might not want to. Happy Birthday to me, I’ve officially hit thirty! And I‘m not sure how I managed to maintain sanity.   In honor of 30 years under my belt, I thought I might entertain you with these 30 little morsels… I’m a picker and a plucker.  If […]

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Girl Meets Toad

{Alternately entitled: “I’m finally getting brave enough to fiddle with my Lightroom software”} Introducing the epic sequel to “Girl Meets Worm”…   Toad. Meet Girl. Toad dislikes Girl. Girl Likes Toad.  Very much. {the end}

Complete nonsense, Photography, The Kiddos

Cake Pops for Africa

I heart Africa, it’s no surprise. It’s been almost 5 years since I was ‘home’. So until we can return, as a family {with children old enough to endure appreciate the journey over the ocean}, to touch her soil and kiss her people, we will live vicariously through my baby sister who has just landed […]

Faith, Food, Travels

At The Well: Guest Post

It’s easy to rejoice in Him when things are going well, isn’t it? But what about when our world is crashing down around us.  What then? Here’s a great verse that’ll help answer this question…check out my post on At The Well. {And again I say Rejoice!}

Designs, Photography, Quotes and Scriptures

They’re Men. They’re Men in Tight {tight} Tights.

Only, they were skirts.  And only sort of. And there were lots of them.  Hundreds upon thousands of people, in full Scottish regalia, show up to celebrate the Highland Festival in Alma each year, eager to soak in all the Gaelic flavor of this occasion…from bagpipes, shortbread and tartan, to highland dancing, sheaf tossing and […]

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There’s wisdom in learning to let them, to releas There’s wisdom in learning to let them,
 to release control over what others think, say, or do.
But freedom deepens when we also learn to let Him,
 to trust God with what we were never meant to carry.

🎙️ New episode of Oh, Good Grief is out today:
 Beyond “Let Them” | A Deeper Invitation to Trust

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
We spend so much of life celebrating spring, the n We spend so much of life celebrating spring,
the new, the young, the beginning.

But autumn carries a glory of its own.

The turning leaves don’t apologize for their season.
They burn brighter because of it.

This is their Prime Time.

There is no expiration date on purpose.
No age limit on transformation.
No season where God stops inviting us deeper.

If there is breath in your lungs,
God is not done with you yet.

🎧 Hear more about my parents' Prime Time ministry,
inspired by the glory of the Autumn leaves, in episode 013 of
Oh, Good Grief | Courage, Cancer, and the Colors of Autumn
She taught me that the later seasons of life are n She taught me that the later seasons of life
are not a winding down,
they are a rising up.

She chose courage when fear would have been easier.
Healing when hiding would have been safer.
Freedom when settling would have been quieter.

🎧 Listen in to part 2 of my conversation with my mom,
Oh, Good Grief | Episode 013, wherever you find your podcasts.
Some seasons ask more of us than we ever thought w Some seasons ask more of us than we ever thought we could give.

This week on Oh, Good Grief, my mom and I continue our conversation - this time about courage, caregiving, and walking through the wilderness of illness without losing hope.

We talk about my dad’s cancer, the sacred weight of loving someone through suffering, and the quiet strength that emerges when faith is no longer theoretical, it’s necessary.

There is a kind of courage that doesn’t look flashy.
 It looks like staying. Trusting. Loving anyway.

🎧 Episode 013 | Courage, Cancer, and the Colors of Autumn is now live.

#OhGoodGrief #FaithInTheFire #GodWithUs
There is something sacred about watching someone r There is something sacred about watching
someone refuse to stop growing.

My mom has spent her life pursuing freedom, truth,
and deeper intimacy with God - not perfectly, but faithfully.

She reminds me that formation doesn’t happen all at once.
It happens through ordinary days, unexpected detours,
and quiet obedience.

We don’t become who we’re meant to be overnight.
We become, slowly, as we trust Him with our story.

🎧 Listen to Failure, Formation, and Finding Home,
 Episode 012 of Oh, Good Grief.
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Some of the people who shape us most don’t just pr Some of the people who shape us most
don’t just preach grace, they live it.

This week on Oh, Good Grief, I’m joined by my beautiful momma for Part 1 of a two-part conversation.

She has stood on stages, taught Scripture, and poured her life into others for decades - but more than anything, she has embodied a faith that keeps growing, keeps trusting, and keeps saying yes to God’s invitation into deeper freedom.

We talk about failure, formation, leaving home and finding it again,
and the quiet ways God builds a life across continents and decades.

Her story has shaped mine in more ways than I can count.

🎧 Episode 012 | Failure, Formation, and Finding Home is now live.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

#OhGoodGrief #FormationInTheFire #FaithfulStill
God delights in using the overlooked. The ordinary God delights in using the overlooked. The ordinary.
The ones who feel too fragile to carry anything valuable.

Pressed, but not crushed.
Perplexed, but not in despair.
Struck down, but not destroyed.

Because it has never been about the strength of the container.
It’s about the treasure inside.

God doesn’t wait for confidence.
He supplies presence.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #SimplyBloomCo
In the Gospels, a massive crowd gathers around Jes In the Gospels, a massive crowd gathers around Jesus, hungry and in need. The disciples see what’s lacking. But a little boy steps forward with what he has: five loaves and two fish.

Small. Simple. Not enough.

And Jesus multiplies it - enough to feed the masses.

God isn’t asking you to provide a banquet.
He’s asking you to bring what’s already in your hands.

🎙️ Episode 011 of Oh, Good Grief | 'What’s In Your Hand?' is now live.
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