I’m joining Lisa-Jo, over at her site today, to take five minutes and just write without worrying if it’s just right or not. The challenge is to write for 5 minutes flat with no editing, tweaking or self critiquing, with the prompt she gives. And today, her prompt: Older…. Go! Older with each passing day […]
Never say never! {Curriculum 2011-2012}
If you would have asked me one year ago if I would ever homeschool, my answer would have been a resounding “NO!…I would never do that!”…with much emphasis and much passion. You see, I delivered four children within five and a half years, and my light at the end of the tunnel (for increasing independence and free time) was […]
New Life
New life. So innocent and full of limitless potential, and what a privilege I have, to witness it come forth each day I go to work. This new life-like wet cement awaiting impressions… An impending imprinting, that will determine a heart’s condition for a lifetime. And I have spent this day as the nurse, helping this […]
To Choose to See the Beauty
It’s been said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder…and isn’t it? And isn’t it true that everything really is a choice? A choice to behold the beauty in the moment…to really SEE it. To open our eyes, and shift our pessimistic and prideful perspective, to take on His. Him who created all things… […]
I Will Not, NOT Come
At registration, the tall, lanky frame of him saunters stoic and slow along the halls of this, his new school, with all the potential that awaits him in this sophomore year. He had pleaded with me, and tried to convince me not to come. This boy turning man The one who grew below my heart […]
Broken Pieces Made Whole
I’ve been broken. And guilty. And hurting. And alone. I’ve chosen poorly, and walked through the pain of the aftermath. And the road was steep and high and long. And as my heart’s shattered pieces were scattered and torn…parts sharp with regret and sorrow for sin; It was the surrender of those pieces that began […]
Cease Striving and KNOW that He is God
I’m joining Lisa-Jo, over at one of my favorite sites today, to take five minutes and just write without worrying if it’s just right or not. The challenge is to write for 5 minutes flat with no editing, tweaking or self critiquing, with the prompt she gives. And today, her prompt:  Still….  Go!  […]
Where there is Love
It was a round table where we met…hearts wanting to learn and hearts wanting to share…
What a Day that Will Be
Today I’m joining Lisa-Jo over at her site to take five minutes and just write without worrying if it’s just right or not. The challenge is to write for 5 minutes flat with no editing, tweaking or self critiquing, with the prompt she gives. And today, her prompt: Full…. GO! Grandpa Joe had lived a good […]
You are God and I am not
The day wasn’t supposed to end like this… A volunteer priest, a giving photographer capturing pictures, and her two little girls coming to see. She had arrived at the hospital that St. Patrick’s Day morning with a gleam in her eyes, and a hope-filled heart, ripe with anticipation…now a boy after two sweet girls. The day […]
