perhaps some of you have a perpetually guilty conscience like i’ve had for most of my Christian life. one of my children has really struggled with this, too! the other day my husband josh shared this secret with him…

i’m often asked about resources we use for spiritual formation in our family/homeschool, & increasingly my answer is less specific, because the resource i use more than any other, besides scripture, isn’t written, but human…

recently i had the pleasure of sharing my journey into a Spirit-filled life with my friend paige on her podcast, love in a cottage. 

here are a few resources, mentioned on the podcast, that were helpful for me on my own journey into a deeper, more intimate life with God…

i’ve been an avid reader of devotional classics for the past fifteen years, & wanted a place to share excerpts from some of my favorites. so, i’ve just added a new tab to the blog : florilegium!

and then comes summer! doors are flung open, & hospitality is a way of life. introverted selves have had adequate time to grow deep roots in the deep dark, now the flowery selves can be vibrant, open, and bold…

do you know that your imagination is a companion to your faith? have you learned this secret?

the sandhill cranes are migrating, the red-winged blackbirds chattering in the hedgerow…

when i was growing up the word testimony usually meant, basically, someone’s spiritual “origin story”, but over the past year or so i’ve come to use the word more liberally, a little more like testify…

i was just reading the other day in Mark,

“With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it…

a few years ago i surrendered my life completely to Jesus. i’d been a christian before—growing up in a missionary home, then getting truly saved while on the mission field myself in my early twenties…

hebrews 11:1 tells us that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. over the years i’ve come to see faith as an actual, vital ingredient. a sort of activator to God’s power…