During the second half of 2020, participating in Heather Gerwing’s monthly Share Four Somethings linkup became one of my favorite blogging rhythms.
If you’re a blogger looking for something a little different in 2021, I’d encourage you to check it out. And if you’re not a blogger, the practice of jotting down something loved, something read, something treasured and something ahead as each month draws to a close might be a helpful habit to implement in the coming year.
It may not be what most people ponder during a workout, but when I’m running down the trail near my house, the familiar Irish travel blessing sometimes comes to mind. May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine …
In the days before we took our older daughter to college for the first time, we watched the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy as a family. I’ve seen these movies several times. Various parts have touched my heart profoundly during different seasons of my life. If we were discussing …
As I read through the Bible, I notice how the writers of scripture use literary devices—metaphor, simile, hyperbole, paradox and so on—to paint a picture or impart truth. One of my favorites is personification—when inanimate objects and concepts take on human traits. In the Old Testament, for example, we see …
It’s been a month, hasn’t it? I don’t know about you, but many of the hopes and plans I had at the beginning of November have not come to fruition. Not the way I envisioned they would, anyway. But we keep plugging away, don’t we? We keep pivoting and revising …
Over time, a medium-sized wild cherry tree near our front door started leaning toward the street, a little bit more every year. Rather than wake up some morning to find the tree had fallen across the road and into our neighbor’s kitchen, we had it removed last year. When the …