If only there were a mediator who could bring us together, but there is none. —Job The mediator could make God stop beating me, and I would no longer live in terror of His punishment. Then I could speak to him without fear, but I cannot do that in my own strength…How can a person […]
Loose ends. The term comes from the old days of sailing ships and their multitudinous rigging ropes. Each end had to be tightly bound to prevent it unraveling. I’m a little like a rigging rope; I unravel easily. Give me predictability, a plan, a steady routine and I hum along through days and weeks and […]
I spent the last two days largely alone. I thought I liked being alone but this was different. Waking alone, eating alone, wiling away a sunny day alone, spending the evening alone, hitting the hay alone… None of these are things I haven’t done alone before but this felt different, like a foreshadowing of lonely […]
Well, it’s been quite a week…may have started with a sag in hormones, but a bunch of things conspired to exacerbate the situation… Being the time of year that homeschoolers assess what’s been accomplished (and what’s been missed) in terms of academics, I was in this mode well before Rachel requested to see Micah’s old […]
The older I get, the more I value it—peace and quiet. Not just a literal quietness but a calm unruffled-ness, an absence of strife… but what is a mother to do? The kids may get older, the tensions subtler, (or at least not over blocks and toys), but the concerns of a mother only get […]