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 [...]

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 [...]

Follow up to the last post…

So my hours walking through the suburbs north of Dallas left me processing a lot internally… which is really a culmination of things the Lord has been stirring in me the last several months… which are really a culmination of things the Lord has been stirring in me the last few years… which were really [...]

Life at the pace of a walk

Last week, Paul had an appointment to take our Honda into the shop to have some work done, and in a moment of pure, speaking-my-love-language awesomeness, he suggested I let him stay with the boys for the morning while I took the car up to Richardson. Not to overstate the case for Paul’s geniusness level, [...]

Simplifying

Does Sarah remember she has a blog? It’s a valid question. I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, and quite a bit longer since I posted anything unrelated to Africa. It’s been a very full season for me in very introspective as well as extrospective ways. (Can I trademark that word right [...]

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  • meditating on…

    John 19: 41-42
    At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

  • listening to…

    Hosanna
    with Christy Nockels on Passion's God of This City album