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This is a blog by a wife, mother, physician, seminarian, consummate journaler and deep-thinker, that turned into a cancer blog (that may one day turn back into a regular blog). To learn more and see suggestions for where to start, click on the “about” link to the left. Welcome!

Personal Spiritual Retreats

Apr 21

Apr 21 Personal Spiritual Retreats

how to begin having regular, extended time spent in solitude with God

Compensatory Control

Apr 17

Apr 17 Compensatory Control

marriage, parenting, life practice

how loss of control in one area of life can make us more controlling in others, in ways that affect our parenting, marriage, and everyday lives

Apr 14

Apr 14 Learning Rest

learning to rest as much as we’ve learned to work, through exploring what it means to truly cease and truly restore

Apr 10

Apr 10 Paper Dates

the currency of attention: practices that prompt us to give our children undivided attention

The Keeping of Living Things

Apr 7

Apr 7 The Keeping of Living Things

parenting, life practice

household theology: of teeth, thorns, and doing again what was done before

The Witnessed Life

Apr 3

Apr 3 The Witnessed Life

bible, parenting

how the pandemic has brought to light the importance of being seen

The Unreliable Narrator

Mar 31

Mar 31 The Unreliable Narrator

marriage, parenting

The story I am telling myself is . . .

Learning to Listen, Learning to See

Mar 27

Mar 27 Learning to Listen, Learning to See

repetition morphs meaning: two examples of how repetition during memorization can affect Biblical meaning