[pinit] There’s a 16 x 20 foot patch of dirt in my backyard that will never win any awards for beauty. It’s ordinary. Rather ugly even. Yet, every year from this plain, ordinary, brown patch of dirt– beauty grows. Not just beauty in the form of plants and blooms – but food that sustains us. […]
Faith, Farming & Friday Links
Monday I will wrap up the coffee-computer saga. God worked in some incredible ways, and I can’t wait to share with you what He did. My my recent article for the West Michigan Christian News featured a local farming family and how their faith impacts how they farm. I love all the interviews I get […]
Grace spilled on everything
[pinit] The day after the forgotten homework incident, I headed to my favorite coffee shop in town to get some serious work done. I had an interview for an article to conduct and a lot of writing to catch up on after two weeks of vacation. After my interviewee left the coffee shop, I refilled […]
Grace on the floor
[pinit] By the third day of school, jet lag had fully caught up to us. It was all I could do to drag myself out of bed while my body screamed that it was only 3 a.m. in California. Nevertheless, the kids had a bus to catch. Little Miss stared into space over her bowl […]
The treasure underneath your feet
In an act of wild adventure, we spent the last 12 days of summer vacation in Southern California. The last 12 days as in we arrived home at 12:30 a.m. and the kids started school at 8 a.m. We squeezed all we could out of this summer. To be honest, we wouldn’t have intentionally tortured […]
New Beginnings
[pinit] Fall has always been one of my favorite times of year. For me, September has always felt like the time for new beginnings and new resolutions, more so than January. It’s a season of making new friends and re-connecting with old ones, whether at school, church, Bible studies, book clubs, or the countless other […]