Encouraging a vibrant, everyday faith.
July 16th, 2012
In case you missed the first 2 installments, check out Rodent in the Garden and Rodent in the Trap. The day of reckoning had arrived for the furry little brown groundhog caught in my live trap. I grabbed my green gardening gloves and headed out to collect my capture. Even though some intelligent trap-engineer had ...
July 13th, 2012
A couple days ago, I picked two zucchini from my garden that bore giant teeth-munch marks. The rodent had obviously returned. Greedy little monster apparently extended his buffet of green beans to include zucchini. Of course, this time the hubby was gone all week on a business trip. So I texted him a picture of ...
July 9th, 2012
The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. Genesis 2:15, NIV Further Reading: Genesis 2:8-25 I love spending time in my garden. Every day, I take a walk through the rows of plants, inspecting, watering, pulling a few weeds, and ...
June 27th, 2012
If you haven’t entered the drawing yet for a copy of Cecil Murphey’s book Unleash the Writer Within, do so here! Nothing draws a crowd of neighbor kids like a giant tub of bubbles. Well, with the exception of juggling fire, but that’s a story for another day. I grew up in a family filled ...
June 5th, 2012
Today, I’m thankful for: Three days of school left. Two days of football camp. Two class picnics. Two amazing teachers One awesome bus driver One massive field trip to the zoo (well…maybe). One big bottle of ibuprofen. And finally on Friday, a big day at the beach with friends. Summer is almost here!! I don’t ...
May 29th, 2012
Congratulations to Joe M and Jen V for winning the give away for Andrea Palpant Dilley’s memoir Faith and Other Flat Tires, searching for God on the rough road of doubt. We got home from Chicago last night, A.K.A. our first vacation with the kids that didn’t involve visiting family or friends. Uh…yeah. The kids ...
August 3rd, 2011
After reaping the fruits of my garden labor in the form of radishes, I recently set out to thin and weed my row of carrots. I hadn’t gone very far down the row before I encountered a plant that looked like a carrot seedling. I leaned forward on my knees scrutinizing the plant, and was ...
July 27th, 2011
I’m sitting here waiting for a pot of water to boil so I can start blanching squash from my garden to put in my freezer. What’s that, a watched pot never boils? That’s why I’m sitting here blogging! I entered my first year of gardening with quite a bit of doubt. I wasn’t sure I ...
June 27th, 2011
Have you ever had something in your life that you thought for sure was dead and then it came back life? We once had a snail in our fish tank that we named Lazarus…after the Biblical man Lazarus that had been dead 3 days and Jesus brought back to life. This snail was flipped ...
June 26th, 2011
Sometimes we need to take a recess from our own life in order to fully appreciate what we have. Little Miss Sunshine and T-Rex spent the past week with my Mom and Dad in Ohio. They’ve gone to Grandma and Grandpa’s by themselves before, but never for a whole week. It’s the longest we’ve been ...
