As I sat in the circle of women, I marveled at the spiritual giants before me. Women who had been through the fire and came out on the...

These are pictures of the aftermath... Of what? 11:00pm shushing 11:30 pm walking 12:00 am singing 12:30am bathing 1:00 am rocking 2:30...

Spring is here!! The frost date has officially passed, and we can now plant all sorts of flowers, fruits, and vegetables without risk of...

While talking with a friend earlier this week, we were busy swapping new mom stories when she asked me a question about how I’m handling...

Connecting creativity to the Creator. That’s the mission statement of Paraklesis. We were made in the image of a beautiful and creative...

“Comparison is the thief of joy,” Teddy Roosevelt once said. Maybe it is, maybe it’s not. In some ways there is a necessity of...

There’s a grand tulip poplar in our neighbor's back yard. She puts on a fabulous show every autumn as her pointed leaves twirl and dance...

You have to water before the heat. It’s been a dry summer. After a very wet spring, the temperatures hit record highs in June breaking...

I went out to check my garden again this morning. The tomato leaves had little beads of water on them from last night's rain and the...

What use is it to prune the dead leaves off a vine if you don't water it? In the course of the past few weeks I forgot about a plant I...

Preface: I wrote this in the fall, and it never made it to publication. My hope is that the timing of this blesses one of you today....

When you look back on your life, do you see the patterns of growth and harvest? Do you see the seasons that are fruitful and the ones...

Backstory: April 2020, like many of us, I was struggling with all that our world was encountering. The brokenness, the lack of community,...

In a counseling session this past summer, we were observing a beautiful horse named Grandy. Grandy, in her last few weeks of pregnancy...

I looked around my garden this morning and felt hopeless. The bell peppers had holes in them from the worms, the peas were uprooted by...

The Garden. The beginning of humanity. Where God walked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the evening. If you settle your heart enough,...

This winter we have had such an abundance of kale that I didn't really plan for. Last fall, I grabbed a pack of organic heirloom kale...

Thoughtful planning now prepares the soil for a bountiful harvest later.

This blog was originally written for Unbridled Changes. Winter can be tough. Many people struggle with seasonal affective disorder,...

When is the last time you rested? You took sabbath and you stopped. When is the last time you said no to the tyranny of the clock or your...