I recently read something about the kinds of Christmas that are celebrated. There’s secular Christmas that starts very close to Thanksgiving and ends on the 25th and then there’s Christmas that starts on Advent and then Christmas as we define it in the Christmas season and the debates about whether it ends on epiphany or…
Category: Out Of Stillness
Ideas, thoughts, reflections, etc that come out of quiet, contemplative time.
The gift of our cross
We all made it through another summer of the big kids being home with me while I worked a full time job. We even sprinkled in play dates and swim team practices and a vacation. It was a ton of fun but I’m so glad to rest now that we’ve all transitioned back to the…
Faith as small as a blackberry
When we moved into our home, I already knew from our previous home that I didn’t have a green thumb. But I really wanted to make a blackberry patch work since we had a creek and I wanted to offer some shade and get a little privacy from the street with a huge blackberry bush….