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May 30, 2018
Gift from the Orchard
The orchard is not the place to rest; to read, write or think. So begins my ode to Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Gift from the Sea. The journalist in me wants to call her Lindbergh but Anne shares my middle name, just the way I spell it. I feel a deep connection with her, so will […]
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May 25, 2018
When Your Little Fox Spoils The Vineyard
I sat down at the table of retreat leaders feeling flustered and tired. I was a day late arriving, a bad flu bug had nearly kept me from coming at all. What bothered me most is that I didn’t think I should be one of the speakers. So many others were better suited than me to […]
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May 7, 2018
For Glory and for Beauty
This past January, I signed up for Alice Crider’s Author Access class. I learned so much in eight weeks about being an author. Alice is also a life coach, and we did several one on one sessions as well. I’m deeply grateful for all she taught me. Just a few days ago, I was telling […]
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April 30, 2018
When God Surprises You
I never expected to speak at Redwood Christian Park. For years, we’ve brought our kids here for family camp. Our seven-year-old, Cruz, is named Christian because we found out we were pregnant with him here. Redwood just didn’t work for us, so we settled on Christian. But before that, we nicknamed our tiny little zygote […]
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April 23, 2018
When you really need to just hold on
Sometimes you really just need to hold on. Keep pushing on. And never give up. You just need to hear that. I need to hear that. Jesus is true. He’s real. He’s for you. He’s got you. I told him this yesterday. Sitting with a friend experiencing death. “He’s got you. Jesus is holding you. […]
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April 8, 2018
When You’re Weary… go to the river.
When you’re weary… Go to the river. Where the cottonwoods whisper in the wind. Foxes hunt all sly and unseen. The deer drink and then disappear. Sometimes you just want to disappear. Just sometimes. I’ve been going to the river a lot the past two weeks. I need it. I kind of hit a breaking […]
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March 29, 2018
Looking for Easter Calves
When I was little, I loved looking for Easter calves. After church Easter morning we’d walk out into the pasture searching for newborns. Back then, I believed Easter calves came from God. Forget the Easter Bunny and hunting for eggs, finding Easter calves always thrilled me. Not every year brought an Easter calf. Yet other […]
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March 20, 2018
The Author In Me
I’m sure you will agree I just need to stick to writing after sharing this video with you. But I’ve been taking an author access class on Thursday nights and one of the homework assignments is to make a Facebook video of my author life. When I first saw this homework, I was kind of […]
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March 10, 2018
The Jar
This morning I came to the kitchen to make our coffee. The night before I had washed a large ice tea jar, which I left sitting in the sink. Sometimes our kitchen faucet drips just a little. The jar was empty when I went to bed. This morning the large jar was half full, which […]
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March 2, 2018
Farming Grace
Three years ago, I wrote Farming Grace, a memoir on life, love, and farming. I turned it into my literary agent and waited. No doors opened. Absolutely none. My agent’s dad got cancer. Anna died. Neither of us touched the manuscript for a year. Then in 2016, Scott made me leave my agent and go Amazon. My […]
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