Daily Grace, Featured

God is in the Mondays

April 17, 2021

Monday

Some days you wake up and it’s a beautiful Hallmark movie morning.  It’s all bright daffodils and doves cooing in the trees and finches in the bird bath. The first poppies are blooming. It is spring and you see how God is in all of it.

Other days you cannot wake up when the alarm goes off.  You hit snooze, and snooze, and snooze again. When you finally do get up, you are (not surprisingly) running late. All the normal morning things still need to be done, but now you don’t have time to do them. Your son has just started to have a basically regular school day again (hurrah!), so for the first time in nearly a year he has to bring lunch to school (Not hurrah!).

Confession: it’s not your favorite thing, the daily lunch making. Yes, you know, you could delegate this job to him. You should delegate this job to him. But that hasn’t happened yet Continue Reading…

Featured, Presence

How the Berries Heal Me

April 10, 2021

Spring arrives.

A Blackberry Project update.

I worked in the blackberries a few times this week. The weather was beautiful, and my son needed me out of the house one afternoon, so it was a good time to venture out. I posted a little video on my YouTube channel about how one of those sessions went. You can watch it here.  First April Blackberry Clearing

Side note: I noticed tonight that there was an unsolicited troll-like comment on one of my early videos. The nerve! I deleted it and blocked the commenter.  However did they find me, I wonder? And just why? What was the point?

Anyway.

Maybe it’s because I’m feeling a little worn out tonight, or maybe it’s because of the troll, but I feel compelled to insert a disclaimer here. Like, I know that these videos are not professional and not important in the grand scheme of things, but I’m sharing them anyway. Not because I am hoping that you will be impressed by me and my berry taming! Or that I have secret hopes of becoming a blackberry wrangling influencer with a YouTube following to rival the Kardashians! Not so much. I’m making these videos because I told myself that I would do them. I committed to showing up once a week or so, to be faithful to the process of doing a little in the berries whenever I can, in order to find out if my little bit makes a difference, if it matters at all.

That’s the thing: to find out if it matters. Continue Reading…