words are my habit.
I’ve wanted to do an Advent Calendar with my kids for minute now and have never gotten around to it. This year, I’m a couple days late but I figured out how to keep it low cost and fun–use items I already own (paper, ribbon, clips, tape, computer, printer, the wall) and only buy a few gifts.
The majority of these items are experiences we’ll have as a family. They include dancing to Christmas music, inviting someone for a meal, and writing cards to people.
The event in this early stage of an essay took place several years ago. One day I’ll finish the essay. The heaviness I felt that afternoon is one I may not forget. So much, perhaps even everything, felt impossible. I’m not sure why I decided to go to a craft store. Did I believe I’d […]
The writing gurus say not to write about the pain when it is fresh. By that they do not mean not to write about it at all, but not to share it just yet when your skin is still hot, when your brain is still hot. Don’t share it when you’re still on fire. I’ve […]
Every year our church had at least one evangelistic series, at least that’s what I recall. At least one. If not three. On some scale. And the best thing about them wasn’t that people were giving their lives to Jesus, although of course that’s a wonderful thing, but for me at age 7, the best thing about these evangelist series was the baptism at the end.
