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Chasing Rest
It was mile 769 out of 1,041 of our drive across the west, when I dared utter the words. “Do you ever wish we could live a slower life?” I asked my husband as we drove across the rolling plains and red clay mountains of Utah. He turned his head slightly and I offered clarification. “Do you ever wish we could move to someplace like this? Live slower. More intentionally. Not as hurried or rushed. You know, more at peace.” I turned my eyes to the countryside, letting my imagination play. I pictured a little house in the meadow of the mountains in a small town like the one we…
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Create Your Own Bible Study Binder {Free Printable Templates}
The Create Your Own Bible Study Binder includes a title page, a context sheet, an outline sheet and a notetaking scripture sheet for you to utilize when studying a book of the Bible. It is a free printable template that I hope will be as helpful and beneficial to you as it is to me.
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Why the Story of Abraham & Issac Isn’t a Barbaric Tale: It’s the Story of Mercy & Freedom
I still remember my mom reading me The Tale of Three Trees. It’s a children’s story about three trees who all had very different dreams. One wanted to hold treasure, the other dreamed of sailing with kings, and the last wanted to be the tallest tree in the forest. As the story continued, I remember leaning in as my mom read, all of their dreams seemed to be shattered. The first tree was turned into a feed box. The second, a little fishing boat. And the third, was just slabs of lumber. But that wasn’t the end of the story. Turns out all of their dreams did come true, just…
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Slime Slinging and a Woman Named Damaris
My son recently discovered the joy of building blocks. He painstakingly gathers both pieces in his chubby baby-not-quite-toddler hands and angles them together to connect. Sometimes the ends don’t fit and he grumbles in frustration, but when they do, he looks up with his big blue eyes to see if anyone noticed. He’ll hold up his stack of blocks and smile, full of self pride. We cheer like any good parents…but then our hoorays turn into muffled giggles when the blocks inevitably fall apart and he wrings his hands in the most dramatic fashion to express his supreme dissatisfaction. Through the multi-colored building blocks, my sixteen-month-old has already learned a…
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Tithing Your Time | A Free Bible Reading Log
I’m a wordy. I fell in love with books in middle school. I’d check out a stack from the public library and a stack from our church library and have them read in a week. I’d return them only to leave with more stacked tall. There’s a running joke in my family when my teacher mom literally said “You aren’t allowed to read anymore books” in an effort to discipline me. It was the only suitable punishment she could think of because my nose was always in a book. This love for reading eventually led me to majoring in English at college, where I discovered I would much rather write…
