We had a wonderful time with Deb Mantel last night! See above re: how to listen to her story.
Here’s a guest post from Ann Voskamp: How to Find Your Perfect Weight (and she’s not talking about dieting or anything along those lines).
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Draw me nearer
I’m just back from vacation. I’m sharing a guest post today since I don’t have time yet to write myself. Here’s something from Ann Voskamp: “Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord” Just her photography is worth the read. Hope you had a great week!
“What an Easter Monday Faith looks like”
A guest post from Ann Voskamp: “What an Easter Monday Faith looks like”
The power of an apron
A good goal for Lent–a realizable one–could be to “Come away for awhile” with the Lord. The space of time might be only 3 minutes. Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley and 17 others, used to throw her apron up over her head in the middle of the kitchen as a sign to her children that she was praying. Remember that children pattern themselves on what they see their parents do. (Actions speak louder than words . . .) I read this post from Ann Voskamp this morning and thought it was not only a brilliant idea for children, but also for us who are called to be like a little child: “How to make and take a peace retreat”. Praying that you find a corner or a chair and three minutes today to come away with your Beloved.
“When the grind of it all makes it hard to keep going”
An excerpt from One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are:
I walk in our back door to candlelight still flickering, hang the keys on the hook, and look around at the steep mountain of laundry there in the mudroom, the shoes scattered, a coat dropped. The mudroom sink is grime ringed. Fingerprints smear across the mirror. And I laugh the happiest wonder.
That last sentence is probably not what you expected. (It certainly was not what I expected.) Read the rest here and see how the Lord gave Ann a great perspective on all that she just walked into.
His ear to our hearts
I’ve posted before about the difference between grumbling and lamenting. I just ran into another helpful delineation:
Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father’s heart. (Ann Voskamp)
For more on this, see “Am I grumbling?” and “Are you still on the dance floor?”
Redeeming beauty from the broken
Are you remembering to look for beauty in your lives? In the midst of hurry and disappointments and black snow and your own shortcomings? Here’s a reminder from Ann Voskamp: “How do Christians Seek Beauty?” and “The Beauty Challenge: Because God’s Everywhere”.
You are beautiful, by the way.
Honking a Horn
Today I am going to refer you to another post at www.aholyexperience.com, written by Ann Voskamp. Just a little background: Ann lives in southern Ontario, is a home-schooling mom of half a dozen, wife of the Farmer, a marvelous photographer, and recent author of One Thousand Gifts (see “What I’m recommending at the moment” above). I hope you enjoy this post as much as I did: “Where the Happiness Is.”
Really, take time to read it. 🙂 Oh, and I think the first letter in the post is supposed to be an “R”, not an “M.”
Witnesses to Hope 