“I’m sitting here in February
and asking you to please tell me again
why all the poems are about spring.”
Morning skate, then oatmeal
Winter storm on Wednesday, when the boys stayed home from work and Leanna, Barrett, and Papa Larry spent the night, and we ate pot pie and watched it swirl down off the eaves
Leafing through big family scrapbooks after dark
Another batch of sourdough, teaching it to mom
Kneeling in the snow by the wood’s edge at dark; wind making the treetops clack together; stillness; and all the yellow light pouring from the neighbors’ windows
Pond hockey until the sun set
A Sunday morning when I was so encouraged by my sisters in Christ
Nancy Guthrie’s teaching and beautiful, intertwined ways of illuminating Scripure as the Story it is
New theology books
Psalm 90 (Satisfy Us With Your Love) by Shane and Shane
Planting seeds for winter lettuce in the sun
Phone conversation with Bethany Rose— farming, goats, Little Women, winter, and where theology meets the real world we live in
Afternoon jaunt to Shaw Nature Reserve with Papa Larry along
Jogging around a frozen Pinetum Lake
Winter Olympics
Running my hand across all the bolts of fabric in the store and picking out a tartan print for a winter skirt
Hours of volleyball and our tired team ride home
Daylight soaring in under the cracks of the sanctuary doors
Two-on-two basketball with a few boys in the church gym
Another Discipleship Now weekend, playing music as a family, and especially when the power went out on verse three of “In Christ Alone” and the students only sang louder: “No guilt in life, no fear in death”
Violining, always
The kind people at Fellowship who have become friends
Stealing in snippets of conversation with Hannah during meals and in line for go karts
Red sun rising behind the cemetery on the hill
Dinner with Papa and Mema and Natalie, and Mrs. Kathy dropping by afterward with a box of cereals from Schnuck’s
John 16 and 17, and the great love with which Jesus loves us— so much so that he extends himself to us
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these always make me feel so warm inside. thanks for reminding me of God’s goodness.
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as always, my favourite post of the month.
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