Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Beauty on Nov 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for the Church. Yessiree, that there Body of Christ is one wacky bunch. I have been in the church my entire life and I still don’t get how it works. Somehow this collection of losers, sinners, arrogant fools, freaks and weirdos all get lumped together and made into something beautiful. We [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Nov 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for Flyleaf’s new album Memento Mori. Their first album was excellent, but they have topped themselves with their second. It’s kind of music that makes me want to dance and sing and cry. They understand life and sing about it in song-sized chunks. Pain, fear, glory, Heaven. The lead singer and [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Oct 19th, 2009 7 Comments »
It’s always a frightening thing to reread a book you haven’t read for a while. We change so much sometimes in just a few years that a book that was once the beginning and end of catharsis for our emotional state is just whiny and dumb. The character who’d once stood on the pedestal of [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Beauty on Oct 14th, 2009 1 Comment »
This past Sunday an old man stood in the pulpit of Providence Church and talked to us about Jesus. He walked with a cane and with great care, but he spoke from the pulpit with power and authority. He spoke about his Lord. Sometimes I didn’t quite know where he was coming from or where [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Beauty on Sep 15th, 2009 No Comments »
This year for school I’m in charge of science for the the kids. I’m doing animals with the little kids which is a lot of fun and plants with the big kids. I wanted to start with explaining photosynthesis so they’d have a grasp on that big idea which informs most of the structural decisions [...]
Posted in Around Town, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Beauty on Sep 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
It was in the evening. Tom was out helping a couple move and Elizabeth and I were watching a movie Elizabeth wanted me to see. Olympia wasn’t interested in our movie so she was curled up in the study watching something on the computer. The movie was just getting to the point I might have [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel, Thoughts About Beauty on Jun 28th, 2009 1 Comment »
Let my God display His might
as lightening rips the air,
let thunder bellow out His name
the smallest echo of His true power
just to feel a breath of His
I’m almost blown away.
Let me stand and feel the rain
pelting, stinging, never still
beyond what I could ever dream
beyond what’s tame and calm and nice
the heart of God poured out [...]
Posted in Rants & Rambles, Raquel, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts on Being Womanly on May 18th, 2009 5 Comments »
I got an e-mail from my mother last week, saying that she thought of me because my nail apron came through the laundry. She knew it was my nail apron because I’d embroidered my initial in the corner. I happen to remember this embroidery. I was quite pleased with the blue and green flowery [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Apr 20th, 2009 1 Comment »
Friday was a perfect day. The children and I spent most of it at friend’s house out in the sun. The sky was the shade of blue poets write about and the weather was like all the best days of spring come at once. We were with people who had asked us over so that [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Beauty on Apr 13th, 2009 3 Comments »
I’m sitting in a rocking chair in a darkened room near a newly installed pellet stove that’s pumping out warmth and warm light. Around me are three children listening at I explain to them the meanings of their names. I explain that names are for us to remember. To remember what their parents wanted for [...]