The rain has ceased, and the green plants look aglow in the dim light. In the midst of springtime, a mystery is drifting down, settling around us, like mist. It is whispering the “magic deeper still” Aslan spoke of in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe . . . the magic that began before […]
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My little one started school this week, so that makes two boys gone all day and one lonely mama. Summer is over, but it was full of wonder . . . Valerie delivering the answer to my earnest prayer: Yes, John needed freedom to ride! Roses carried home on the back of a motorcycle God blessing me again and […]
The hummingbirds have flown south, but their work here is done. This is home. We’ve been eating and sleeping, crying and dancing in this 1920’s cottage for only a year and five months, but it has already started to feel like my second body. There is a hint of a threat that my family, too, […]

The same God who brought you the good old days will bring you the good new days.” I read this bit of wisdom in a book by John Claypool when I was a teenager, and I’m still quoting it to myself today. The New Year is beginning, and although I feel a twinge of excitement […]