Summertime is usually our calm-time. We spend our morning relaxing and chilling before we head to the pool. This summer, on the other hand, is going to look a little bit different. This month we are traveling to China to bring home our fifth child, a little boy only two-years old. We have decided this is the summer we will not get to do the “same old things.” In fact, I’m not quite sure what this summer will look like….
I’m so honored to have my friend Keri share her heart with you today. I always walk away from her words with hope in my soul. It is a funny mixture, summer and motherhood. You put them together and get this beautiful, chaotic picture. When I look back on my childhood summers, I have such fond memories of popsicles, swimming in Lake Michigan, bike rides, and playing outside as long as our parents would let us. Our days were carefree…
One Monday morning I felt all the Monday-Feelings. I woke up and drank from the same coffee cup. I got their lunches ready, like I do every Monday morning. I ate a boring breakfast, and fixed cereal again for the kids. We got in the car and we drove the same road we’ve driven every morning for the entire school year. How I do keep going, when life is so boring? How do I find excitement each afternoon, trying to…
How do I remember eternity, when I’m stuck in the ordinary and consumed with the daily tasks and to-do lists? The big thoughts of scripture are easy to see when we read the Bible. We even feel a stir of hope in our hearts when we hear them preached on Sundays. How do we live, though in the middle of our present with a view of something we’ve never seen? I’ve always admired that passage in Hebrews which talks about…