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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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The stories we tell about ourselves often begin be The stories we tell about ourselves often begin
before we know we’re telling them...
in childhood, where identity is still forming
and belonging can feel uncertain.

This week, I sit down with my friend Tiana Hawver as she shares her story of adoption, trauma, and the ache of rejection that shaped how she saw herself for years.

This one is tender. Honest.
And deeply needed.

🎧 Episode 020 is live | Reconnecting the Dots
  Identity, Trauma, and the Ache of Belonging
Joy isn’t the opposite of sorrow. It’s the opposit Joy isn’t the opposite of sorrow.
It’s the opposite of fear.

We live between Friday and Sunday,
and most of life feels like Saturday.
Tension is not failure.
It’s formation.

If you’ve been chasing happiness
and feeling weary...
this episode might steady you.

🎧 019 | Cultivating Joy on the Journey
 [in the Middle of the Mess]

Listen wherever you stream podcasts.
One year ago today, I drove 90 mph to an emergency One year ago today,
I drove 90 mph to an emergency room,
wondering if I would walk into that room
as a worried wife…
or a widow.

Another valley of despair.
Another encounter with a good, faithful God.

My update from that week still holds:

"I never imagined my shaky thumbs would be typing words like stroke, NeuroTrauma ICU, or brain surgery in reference to my healthy, 44-year-old husband.
And yet…this is where we find ourselves.
We’ve been brought to our knees—again.
But, as we’ve come to understand…
our knees are a good place to be.
Nestled in the palm of God’s hand..."

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And today, we continue to stand amazed,
at God’s kindness to us,
and at the gift of our people:
our community, our family, our friends,
who have carried us in ways we will never be able to repay.

Looking at my handsome guy today,
strong, fully recovered, and back to work since October,
apart from the six-inch scar up the back of his head,
you’d never know a massive stroke almost took his life.

So we mark today with gratitude.
I hereby dub April 23rd:
Joe’s Stroke of Grace Day ✌

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“When you’re in over your head,
I’ll be there with you.
When you’re in rough waters,
you will not go down.
When you’re between a rock and a hard place,
it won’t be a dead end…”
:: Isaiah 43:2
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Happiness is a moving target. Joy is not. In toda Happiness is a moving target.
Joy is not.

In today’s episode, I share a story about a farmer
who trusted the wrong reference point,
and plowed his entire field crooked.
Maybe the reason we’re exhausted isn’t because we’re failing.
Maybe we’ve been fixing our eyes on something that keeps moving.

This conversation isn’t about faking joy.
It’s about cultivating it, in grief, in tension,
in the hidden places where roots grow.

🎧 Episode 019 | Cultivating Joy on the Journey
 [in the Middle of the Mess] is now live.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #RootedJoy #FaithInTheHard #JoyOnTheJourney
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What if addiction isn’t the root, but the symptom? What if addiction isn’t the root,
but the symptom?

What if beneath the behavior
there’s pain that’s never been named?

This week’s conversation is about
truth, trauma, and the slow work of healing.

And the kind of redemption
only God can write.

🎧 Listen to 018 | Beauty Beyond the Breaking with Carol Boothroyd
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