Doing Thanks
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more40 Things You Need to Know Before You’re 40 . . . . Letters to a Woman Mid-Way
On Tuesday, April 30 th, 2013Dear Self, Look, you have only got so many days till your midway. Till you’ve heard almost half the morning doves you ever will. Felt the sun on your face half as many chances as you’ll have, laughed half as many times as you’ll ever know — and who knows, maybe most of your God-blessed moments are already passed? So for the holy sake of sanity get off th...
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moreBecause His Daughters’ Hearts Beat with His
On Wednesday, February 27 th, 2013I’m still ringing with yesterday’s heart cry: Gratitude has never failed to radicalize the radically grateful and when you are radically grateful for what you have, you will go to radical lengths to share it and when you’re overwhelmed with the goodness of God to you — you overflow with the goodness of God to others. Fire in the belly can come f...
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moreHow Women Can Get Radical For Their Sisters
On Tuesday, February 26 th, 2013When you pick up the garbage in the streets of Minoterie, there’s the sun burning up the back of your bare white neck. And crumpled tin cans and sucked-dry water bags and an AIM toothpaste box and empty rum bottles. And barefoot boys kicking a ball, and boys begging you for just one swallow water, and boys lacing their fingers around your sweaty hand. You can bend down li...
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moreFamily Mission Trip #1 (Friday on the Farm)
On Friday, February 15 th, 2013And (I think!) we’re off! Lord willing, we’ll be sharing the God stories in real time as we go with God and stumble ...
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moreWhen Lent & Valentines Collide: 40 Days of ThanksLoving
On Wednesday, February 13 th, 2013It wasn’t 2 weeks before those 40 days of Lent that he’d turned 40. I’d kissed the old man in the kitchen and his 4 days growth had rubbed me like a matted burr and he’d laughed like a free man and said he’d never expected 40 to feel so young. I had thought we’d celebrate and loose the farm for the first real time. ...
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moreWhat is time for but this?
On Thursday, January 31 st, 2013Wildest Grace! And thousands of you most beautiful people all say “Here I am” and become 1000 gifts and the cycle of grace continues on and on and the five little nieces and all us crazy farm folk, we’re bowled over and undone by this unending deluge of birthday cards for...
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moreWhat Radical Christianity Looks Like Right Where You Are {Pt. 3}
On Wednesday, January 30 th, 2013You can beat your hard chest over the slaves in night streets. And over women beaten down for her one beautifully snapping mind, and over oppression that crushes the gasping lungs of whole nations. And all your chest banging can sound clang hollow, and I think this over a sink full of crusted pots. The water is hot. And not at all hot enough. And where do you find the blasted t...
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moreWhat Does a bit of Radical Christianity Really Look Like —- Right Where You Are? {Pt 2}
On Wednesday, January 23 rd, 2013When I first read her story on the screen, I want to drive a for sale sign into the front lawn and sell all the pigs. Mainly because I don’t think I can shoe horn a few hundred hogs into a suitcase — and there’s now way around it: my heart’s already left on a jet plane for Africa. Because here I am with the c...
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more‘Jesus is the Greatest Gift’ Christmas Gifts for Neighbors: Free Printable
On Wednesday, December 19 th, 2012The kids have Adore Him playing and th...
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moreBecause We’re Women in a Long Line of Women {*UPDATED at bottom of post}
On Tuesday, December 11 th, 2012It wasn’t planned or anything, no more than you can get all your ducks lined up in a row — no more than you can stop love from breaking free. I just bent a bit on a December 11th, bent and swayed and prayed, and I had two babies on the same day, December 11th — two years apart. One early in the morning, 6:27 am, in the middle of a Canadian blizzard, and the o...
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moreHow Beards & Men & Random Acts of Kindness Can Change the World
On Tuesday, November 27 th, 2012I can’t ever say that kissing him before was painful. I mean, nothing about him ever scratched abrasive and rough, nothing like the grit side of an unused emory board, the backside of a knot of burrs. The man just grabbed me around the waist and most days the warm side of him feels only like a few days growth, like he’d be tough enough to drive those whiskers right ...
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moreHow to Live the Really Best Bucket List
On Tuesday, August 28 th, 2012When I’d picked up the magazine lying on the seat next me, the pages fell open to this editor’s column — about his bucket list. “We all have a bucket list – whether it is written down or tucked somewhere in the back of our mind just waiting for the right moment to transition over to ink on paper.” ...
