Dear O & E, You are the twin earthquakes that shook my world to the core. The whole axis is bent and time has shifted. The days are so much longer now, while the years grow shorter. One minute I am trying to speed things a long because somehow its taken eight hours between dinner [...]
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Mothers Day
Posted in FAMILY, One Thousand Gifts on May 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Pause
Posted in FAITH, One Thousand Gifts on May 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Emily got in trouble once too much this weekend, she stomped away and shouted, “I just can’t do dis, I QUIT” I know only one place she could hear that from. Me. I am a quitter. When the going gets tough, I assume God isn’t in it. I assume, we’ve lost our way. I want [...]
When the World Spins Too Fast
Posted in One Thousand Gifts on April 29, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Some weeks? You just need to put your head down and ‘git er done’. I am in one of those. Finishing work for the term (reports, planning, etc), planning a large girls conference next weekend and also trying to finish one other important project. Everything that has been just loosely held together this year is [...]
How To Crawl Out from Under A Rock
Posted in FAITH, One Thousand Gifts on April 9, 2012 | 11 Comments »
I’ve been living under a rock. Feeling the weight of the whole world and feeling tired and misshapen. I’ve been feeling my sins heavy, my flesh weak, my body hunched with the weight of my own failures. I’ve not been feeling like myself. Or more precisely, I’ve been feeling too much like myself. BUT. When [...]
When Motherhood Leaves You Breathless
Posted in FAMILY, One Thousand Gifts on March 19, 2012 | 8 Comments »
The two of you plant yourselves firmly on the mid-point of my chest. You sit there, each of you a mere forty odd pounds but sometimes I feel the weight of the whole world pressing on me, pushing the air from my lungs, the blood from my heart. Sometimes you feel so dreadfully heavy. That [...]
New Eyes
Posted in One Thousand Gifts, World Vision on January 22, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Its been nearly two weeks since our feet set back onto Canadian soil; Africa seems a bit like a jet lag induced dream sequence. People keep asking me if the experience in Kenya was ‘life changing’. In all honesty I can answer no it wasn’t. No. Life is the same. The dishes pile up. The children didn’t [...]
When Even Fear Bows in Worship
Posted in One Thousand Gifts on December 11, 2011 | 7 Comments »
When the moon is full to almost overflowing, the sky so clear the whole of it bruised deep purple. When the snow in reflecting all that splendor, turns blue in reverence creating the illusion of evening. In this moment, even Fear drops onto her knees to worship the One who made it and suddenly Overwhelmed [...]
Thankful. Here. Now.
Posted in One Thousand Gifts on October 24, 2011 | 6 Comments »
It is the kind of day where you walk into the bathroom and think “Oh no…what happened here?!” only to realize that you are smelling bleach. The problem? That chlorine smell and the smell of bodily fluids are all mixed up in your head. We are ten days into smelling those smells at the same [...]
How to Keep Going the Same Direction
Posted in FAITH, FAMILY, Marriage, One Thousand Gifts on October 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been wondering: How do you ensure you keep going the same direction when you feel like two ships passing in the night? I’m back at work a little and the man and I? Well, we are playing a bit of tag team. So when we brush lips at the door (resist the urge to [...]
Older
Posted in One Thousand Gifts on September 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
And I’m like a river rock being rubbed smooth with sand. And I’m like a pocket knife being kept sharp with steel. And I’m like a piece of wood being ground down with sandpaper. Life is just like that as we get older. And sometimes it feels like the blade is dangerous. That one, that [...]
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