Heart of the Home (+ the wisest thing you can do each day)

I’ve been an emotional pinball machine lately. Thrown to and fro, bouncing high to low, at the mercy of changing moods. And not just my own moods (although I’ve got enough for all of us). If Owen’s crabby, I get crabby. If Molly’s dramatic, here comes Drama-Mama. Sucked into this riptide of reactivity, I’ve felt powerless to lift my head

#firstfridayfinds: The thing I didn’t want to be true.

    I’m linking up with Elizabeth at Words and Wonder again for First Friday Finds. Be sure to visit her site to see the rest of the submissions, or to add your own! All you need is one verse and fifteen minutes. Here’s my September find:     “When we listen with the intent to

#firstfridayfinds: To be found by us.

Today I’m linking up with Elizabeth at Words and Wonder for First Friday Finds. Be sure to visit her site to see the rest of the submissions, or to add your own! All you need is one verse and fifteen minutes. Here’s my August find: “God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps

#firstfridayfinds: Freedom gives me anxiety.

    It’s Friday Saturday!!! Dang it, I’m a day late. But YESTERDAY was the first Friday in July… which means it’s time to link up with Elizabeth at Words and Wonder for First Friday Finds. Ready? One verse, fifteen minutes, and… go.   As we celebrate Independence Day, we celebrate FREEDOM! Freedom is AMAZING!!! But, can

#firstfridayfinds: Wrestle

It’s Friday!!! AND it’s the FIRST Friday in June… which means it’s time to link up with Elizabeth at Words and Wonder for First Friday Finds. Ready? One verse, fifteen minutes, and… go. To choose a verse this morning, I employed the super-holy method of “open-your-Bible-to-a-random-page-and-choose-the-first-verse-you-see.” The fact that I landed on a verse beginning with a name I

#firstfridayfinds: Sufficient Courage

It’s the first Friday in May (already!?!), which means I’m linking up with Elizabeth at Words and Wonder for first friday finds! Ready? One verse, fifteen minutes, and… go. I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body,

#firstfridayfinds: It.

It’s the first Friday in April, which means I’m linking up with Elizabeth at Words and Wonder for first friday finds! Ready? One verse, fifteen minutes, and… go. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it. (1 Thess. 5:24) I’m not sure where to even begin with this verse. It jumped

#firstfridayfinds: As far as it depends on me.

It’s the first Friday in March, which means I’m linking up again for first friday finds! You can read the details by clicking on the image above.  Here’s my March find… If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. (Romans 12:18) Man, I’d really like a re-do

#firstfridayfinds: My Unbelief

It’s the first Friday in February, which means I’m linking up again for first friday finds — and I’m not even late!!!!! (Miracles DO happen, people.) You can read the details by clicking on the picture above – but in a nutshell, on the first Friday of each month I’m going to open up my

#firstfridayfinds: Made Clean

I’m taking a dare. I’m already three days late, but I don’t even care. One of my favorite people on the planet has started something she’s calling #firstfridayfinds, and I want in! I think the idea is fantastic – as is everything she writes. (You should definitely check it out at her website http://www.mywordsandwonder.com. You’ll