We cut up whitepaper,pierce a hole right through,hang this passion …… on a bunch of wood. We read each day’s devotional. We hang the devotional’s accompanying art symbol on our own passion tree, the very same dogwood branches we hung our Jesse Tree symbols on at Christmas. We too are led to Calvary. ::::: How...
Advent truth from last year… that we were remembering around the table today… Why do we get stuck with such an ugly tree?” Malakai wanders through living room, pauses before bare artificial needles. I turn from stovetop and the stirring of slow bubble of potato and corn chowder, look his way. He’s got his hands...
I’m in the kitchen and the house is still still, and the sky’s dome’s lightening blue, night’s grey pigments blending with morning’s warm hues, and her voice calls from her pillow. It’s her first waking thought. She calls it out to the day stretching awake and to me, to her Mama that she knows is...
It’s twenty after three, three days before Christmas, and the Salvation Army band’s blowing out “O Come let us Adore Him” on tuba and trombone by the grocery checkouts, every aisle is a snarl of carts, long lists, and anxious children, and I’m finding it hard to breathe. Can I feel the bones of my...
One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are {Zondervan}
{New York Times Bestseller Award winner in: Christianity Today Books of the Year USAToday Bestseller}
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in the most beautiful of ways..." Lysa Terkeurst, Proverbs 31 Ministries