Monthly Archives: October 2009

Screen Shots from the Best Movie I’ve Ever Seen

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From Shauna Niequist’s “Cold Tangerines”

Your life, right now, today, is exploding with energy and power and detail and dimension, better than the best movie you have ever seen. You and your family and your friends and your house and your dinner table and your garage have all the makings of a life of epic proportions, a story for the ages. Because they all are. Every life is.

You have stories worth telling, memories worth remembering, dreams worth working toward, a body worth feeding, a soul worth tending, and beyond that, the God of the universe dwells within you, the true culmination of super and natural.  Read more... (130 words, 9 images, estimated 31 secs reading time)

What Daddies Do

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“Mom?” green eyes sparkle at me, “You be the Mommy and I’ll be Daddy, because I want to grow up just like him, so I need to practice.”

Grinning at my Bear, I pause over the rolls I am slicing. “Ok. But what do daddies do?”

He runs from the room and returns with a book. “This is my Bible and I am going to read and learn all about Jesus.”

He plops himself on the rolling chair by the desk, “Now you listen while I tell you what to do.”  Read more... (323 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

Sunrises and Sunsets

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There is nothing like going out back early in the morning, walking the yard and seeing this…

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Then again, there is nothing like standing at my kitchen window early in the morning, sipping coffee and seeing this…

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But then again, there is nothing like sitting on my front porch after a long day and seeing this…

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The world is alive, blinking and clicking, winking at us slyly, inviting us to get up and dance to the music that’s been playing since the beginning of time… (Shauna Niequist, “Cold Tangerines”)

Childlike Faith

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It is the same each night that I go in to check on her. Tossing in her restlessness, she has turned herself upside-down, on top of quilted covers, feet dangling over the bed’s edge. I lift her in my arms and place her gently back on her pillow pulling her blankets around her.

It is such a simple, automatic gesture with which she responds. Never waking as I lift her, she pulls her arms around my back and hugs tightly, then sighs with contentment when I place her back where she belongs. It is a gesture so sweet, simple and beautiful. One of childish faith and love.  Read more... (522 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)