In Season: Love

Love has always been the one thing that has remained constant in my life.


I've struggled with self-control (chunky thighs and flabby arms, compliments of an overdose of brownies).

I've struggled with faithfulness, occasionally questioning both my role and God’s role on Earth.

Patience has always been out of the question as well, as I have the attention span of a caffeinated squirrel.

I valued love more than any other Fruit of the Spirit (although I am in no way saying that the other ones are not as important).

Blessings this Week: 06.12.2015

Because counting the blessings leads to contentment, and being thankful makes every day a miracle.

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Our week began with visiting with some friends and their little ones- hanging out at their camper and showing them our new house! 

Love Your Body

I was the smallest kid in my class. Always.

Even still, I'm the smallest adult in most venues- it's part of being a whopping 5'0" tall.

It never really bothered me- and it still doesn't.

In fact, being tiny kind of became who I am. My identity. 

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In Season: Finding the Fruit

I’m in a season right now. A season when fruit seems hard to come by. I often feel unproductive- like my spiritual legacy is stunted somehow by my physical infertility. It’s barren time- or it certainly seems that way.

I think many of us have been there. Whether we've walked a road of infertility (like mine), or suffered losses and grief, stagnation, difficult marriages, unfulfilled dreams- it’s easy to feel like our lives offer little fruit.

Blessings this Week: 06.05.2015

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New Sunday traditions

Much Bigger Plans

A few months back, I wrote a bit about how the camp where we work and live was in need of additional staff housing. I wrote about how I felt strongly called that we were supposed to be part of the solution.

There were some ideas- to move off site, to move to camp's other site.... but all of those ideas fell through, and we made a much smaller move- from living in our two-story house to just the top story.

Snug as two little lovebugs in our home called Upper Shalom, we kind of thought that we'd fulfilled that calling I felt so strongly. We'd been obedient. We thought we were done.

But, just like with most things in our lives, God had much bigger plans.

Like, 21 acres bigger.

More details to come... but for now, just join me in jumping up and down!

You Know You Live at a Bible Camp When....

Most of your co-workers are also your neighbors. And you watch their kids sometimes. And you're all friends. Which makes it tricky to describe them.