Sitting on my grandmother’s old pine table at the lake house is a wooden prayer cube. Mia bought it years ago on a trip to Santa Fe. It looks like a dice (die?) and on each side is a mealtime prayer. I love the prayer cube and the encouragement it brings to the family dinner table. I found smaller cubes—tiny…
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Rejoice! Our Favorite Christmas Songs {YMCA of the Rockies}
Our house is full of song this time of year. Littlest is practicing for her role as the Inn Keeper in the kindergarten Christmas pageant and the older Littles are singing carols from the Middle School and Elementary choir concerts. I made a Spotify playlist of our favorite Christmas songs. I’m sharing it in my monthly post at the YMCA…
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Mary Did You Know? Reflections on motherhood at Christmas
The Christmas I was pregnant with our first baby I must have listened to the song, “Mary Did You Know?” at least one million times. Our due date was still three months away, but I knew the baby I was carrying was a boy. We opted not to confirm my inklings with sonograms and reminded our doctor to keep mum…
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Books for the Journey
I read so many books (as you recall many at one time) narrowing down favorite titles on faith was harder than I thought. I tried to compile a list of rich reads that offer encouragement—or at least they did to me—no matter where you find yourself in your faith walk. Admittedly, this is an eclectic assortment of writers ranging from…
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Advent: In Anticipation
Today is the last day of the church year. Tomorrow morning we awake to the freshness of Advent. We are all on a journey. Pilgrims in this place. Advent begins the season of the journey that leads to the cross. We are gospel people. We are Easter people. We are His. I hope you find in this season of tinsel,…
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When Life Resembles a C&W Song More Than A Pinterest Board
There’s a Robert Earl Keen song that has become synonymous with the holidays for me and my sister. Merry Christmas from the Family is gritty, a tad off-color, and pretty much makes us howl laughing every time we sing it. Which is often. It’s the kind of song that really requires a karaoke machine to get the full effect. But,…
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