It starts and ends here: the child asks me a question. “Mommy, can you come to Friday chapel today?” my six year old says. I tell him that I would love to do it another time but that I can’t today. “Oh. Are you going to jail?” he asks. “Yes,” I tell him. And I [...]
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All posts tagged Spiritual Life
The Child Asks Me a Question…
Posted by sarahonpurpose on February 3, 2012
http://thestehlikchronicles.com/2012/02/03/the-child-asks-me-a-question/
“I lift my eyes up…” and the days that teach me to do it more
I see it in her face. Or rather, it’s what I don’t see in her face. She is in kindergarten, and I am at the neighborhood school where I help out, and we are walking the halls to a room where we will work on writing sentences. It is the first thing I notice about [...]
Posted by sarahonpurpose on January 20, 2012
http://thestehlikchronicles.com/2012/01/20/i-lift-my-eyes-up-and-the-days-that-teach-me-to-do-it-more/
An Exchange Program… of sorts. Not really. But kind of.
Anyone who knows me knows there are a couple of things that I get all fired up about and perhaps even a little “John the Baptisty” about, and one of those things is children who are in need- and particularly the responsibility we share as followers of Christ to care for them. And not so [...]
Posted by sarahonpurpose on January 17, 2012
http://thestehlikchronicles.com/2012/01/17/an-exchange-program-of-sorts-not-really-but-kind-of/
Two Windows to One Gift
It is my four year old who places a window beautifully in front of me that I might see the very face of God. In the hustle and business of the morning routine we all scurry and scatter between breakfast and backpacks. Paul walks by the computer, turns on a song. And drum beat sets [...]
Posted by sarahonpurpose on January 11, 2012
http://thestehlikchronicles.com/2012/01/11/two-windows-to-one-gift/
Bare Branches
It is a cold morning as the boys and I walk to school. I bask in the complex hues of blues, yellows and grays in the early January sky. The boys bicker, one about the bulkiness of his archnemesis- winter coat, one about the slow speed of the others, the other about how unpleasant the [...]
Posted by sarahonpurpose on January 4, 2012
http://thestehlikchronicles.com/2012/01/04/bare-branches/
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