Dear Creator of Easter,Each year You meet meAt just the time I struggle to Believe That my messes are not a signThat my failures define meThat Your death was not tidyAnd that the only thing perfectIn all that led to Your resurrectionWas Your love My Savior,Your work is the proofThat when I forget toBelieve In […]
Simple Hope
This Easter, I’m most struck by how powerful and simple hope is. The hope that Jesus provides is what keeps me going when I’m tapped out of energy. It’s what keeps me smiling when I’m surrounded by sadness. I’m grateful for the way that this holiday celebrates the very thing every single human is striving […]
From Now On: A Christmas Miracle
When I read the Christmas story each year, God gives me the gift of a new lens, known as another year’s experience, to filter the spoken and unspoken details of those precious participants who lived out the story without the benefit of knowing what would happen next. In our current culture, I’m constantly blown away […]
Favorite Christmas Movies
This intensely deep post is brought to you because of the fun little photo a day challenge I decided to take on this December. I’ve done these kinds of things before from time to time, and I really enjoy them in small doses. Now that I check my Time Hop app every morning, I’m even […]
In Everything Give Thanks
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” ~1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 I have a started a half dozen different posts in recent weeks and months that I can’t seem to complete for the simple reason that I can’t seem to express properly how much […]
Simple Easter Activity for the Preschooler in Your Life
If you’ve read anything I’ve written in the past few weeks, you’ll probably notice that simple is my motto. The only way that I’ll accomplish anything is if I keep it short, sweet, and a little bit flawed. And I kind of like it that way. With it being Holy Week this week, I wanted […]
Why I’m Celebrating This Easter
Good Friday. Such an interesting title for the most unjust and tragic day in all of earth’s history. Yet it can be good because of what Christ’s death accomplished. Today, I’m celebrating because of what the sacrifice of Jesus’ life accomplished for me. Even more so, I’m celebrating because of what His defeat of death […]
Not My Average Easter
Photo Credit Sometimes it seems that holidays come and go without making much of a difference. I eat more candy and big meals, give and receive a few presents, and before I know it, it’s history. This started bothering me a few years ago as I put effort and joy into decorating for Thanksgiving and […]
ap·pre·ci·a·tion
(uh-pree-shee-ey-shuh-n) noun 1. gratitude, thankful recognition 2. the act of estimating the qualities of things and giving them their proper value 3. clear perception or recognition (Thanks to dictionary.com for these insightful definitions.) The fact is, there just aren’t beautiful definitions for the precious words gratitude or thankfulness. The phrase, “the act of being thankful” […]
Making Thanksgiving Count
Source Do you ever feel like a holiday just comes and goes without you even realizing it? If you could just take another couple of days to prepare yourself for what it is and what it means, you’d feel much more fulfilled when it was over rather than remorseful that you just missed all of […]