The Incredible, Beautiful, Redemptive Birthday Miracle
I can't help but be thankful and marvel at the difference a year makes. I woke up on New Year's Day 2013 with the weight of What Was To Come handcuffing me to my bed: my fiftieth birthday. I hardly felt like the girl who stretches birthdays as...
RARE Site-wide sale on Lisa Leonard Jewelry!
Hey friends-- I just found out that is having a sale where buyers will receive 25% off their entire order TODAY-TOMORROW ONLY (April 23 & 24, 2014): Be sure to use the code "momlove" to receive your discount. And since we're on the subject of...
Just a Little Tea/Pot
I'm out of breath riding backwards on a train sitting across from an Asian student who doesn't speak English but who does speak German. She's working on an exam of some sort, using a pencil and block eraser and painting her words beautiful, none of which I can...
We Can Do Something EXTRAordinary
There's something special about having a song written just for you, especially when it's a love story of sorts and a genuine celebration of one of the best things in life-- Real community. A week from today I'll be co-hosting an (in)RL Meet-up in my new hometown,...
Why I’m Doing Whole 30 and A Recipe Born of Desperation
In hindsight, our timing could have been better. After a wonderful return trip to Germany recently (one reason of many the blog has been so quiet lately), eating and drinking incredible things, we decided to shock our bodies senseless by beginning Whole 30...
The art of listening
It's something I've told my children since before they could fully understand what it meant: God gave you two ears and one mouth so you could listen twice as much as you speak. (So you should listen twice as much as you speak…?) I'd do well to follow the same...
…open a new door…!
Oh, hai there internet people, long time no see. Well, I have reasons, lovies, and good ones. I've kinda-sorta been occupied, some reasons to which I've alluded online, but mostly not. For an over-sharer who lives with private people, I imagine they're probably...
The Seeker and the Miracle
There was this time when my faith was in crisis, when I questioned if I had ever truly believed what I had professed for as long as I could remember. It was a defining, depressing, dark and desperate season. And it was painfully lonely. If a person could be born a...
Freedom Givers
Since the early days of incourage, we dreamed of what it might look like to bring our reading community together, the kind of gathering where we carried offline those friendships begun in the virtual realm. Sometimes a girlfriend just needs a hug--skin to...