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At The Well, Guest Post

God has a {massive} crush on you.  Did you know that? It’s the wildest, most outrageously sacrificial love you could ever imagine…   {click here to read more on At The Well}

Designs, Faith, Guest Post, Quotes and Scriptures

Pretty Pops for Valentine’s Day

It’s true.  Cake pops make me happy. What’s not to love about decadent cake, all jazzed up, on a stick? Revisit my initial cake pop tutorial here…or simply get a little refresher below {while taking in all the deliciousness of my little helper who happened to turn 3 1/2 on the day we made these […]

Food

Snowed In {and Lovin’ It!}

     

Daily Life, The Kiddos

Scalawag

Why might my son be looking at me in this sheepish fashion, you wonder? Because I found him perched on one of our ridiculously high dining chairs, playing merrily at our intentionally-too-high-for-the-children-to-ransack dining table… with his sister’s paint bottles {visible above, clutched tightly in little fists}. I believe I have a whole new world of […]

Daily Life, The Kiddos

Bobotie {Say That 3 Times, Fast}

This dish {take a deep breath}…is going to change your life. I teased it almost two weeks ago.  Remember this shot of my little garlic-peeling helper..? Finally, I’m on the ball, folks…she’s here: one of my absolute favorite South African dishes. It’s called Bobotie.  Pronounced {something to the effect} of ‘buh-boo-uh-tee’.  And it’s decadent. With […]

Food

Audience of One

I love discovering things I’m good at. Like eating…in private {in the wee hours of the morning}.  Speaking…in public.  Baking…oatmeal.  Designing things with polka dots and swirls.  Dancing to Owl City in my pajamas.  Kissing boo boos.  Writing deep thoughts about venison.  You know, the important stuff. And as it turns out, I’m not too […]

Faith, Grace

Happy Month of Love {Desktop Wallpaper}

Seeing there’s nothing quite like cutting out paper hearts, rimming them with sprinkles, sticking them in the snow and photographing them {what?  You don’t do that?!?) in the name of February fever, I thought I’d share the love… Just choose the size {below} that works best for your computer, download and save it, right click […]

Designs, Desktop Wallpaper

So Far, So Fabulous

Our little man has been medicine free for almost a month. And we’re beyond thrilled about it!  There has been no SVT in sight, and he actually made it to his holter monitor appointment on Tuesday {last time he was weaned, in late May 2010, he was back in the ER in SVT within two […]

The Kiddos

Re-Post: When You Can’t…

…see God’s hand, trust His heart. Over at Inner Fulfillment.

Faith, Grace, Guest Post, Keepin' it Real

The Help

I love that there are occasionally ‘jobs’ that I dread doing…that I know a certain someone will adore pulling off. Seasoning the cast iron tea kettle, for instance… It started slow.  The reticent, one-fingered application. She, much like her mother, is not fond of dirty hands. Apparently grease is in a class of it’s own. […]

Complete nonsense, The Kiddos

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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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