Recently I’ve been memorizing Psalm 25, and as the verses have tumbled over my lips and into my heart, one phrase has resonated again and again: “Good and upright is the Lord; therefore He instructs sinners in His ways.” (verse 8, emphasis added) I am so quick to assume that I have to have it… Continue reading How He Instructs this Sinner’s Heart
30-Day Writing Challenge Day 30: Your highs & lows for the month year. 2016 wasn’t an especially momentous year for me. There were no major challenges or life changes – just a sweet year of growth, travel, and contentment in where God has placed me. Some years you need that – not ones of monumental… Continue reading 2016-The Top Twenty
30-Day Writing Challenge Day 29: What are your goals for the next 30 days? Setting goals is kind of like a hobby for me. I love setting goals because it gives me something to always work towards. Checking things off of a list brings me great joy, and yes, there’s a kind of euphoria that… Continue reading 7 Goals for 2017
How do you win the heart of a lady? I am not an expert on the matter of dating, but I am an expert on being a female, so perhaps I do know a few things about what appeals to women – or maybe just this woman. It’s a ticklish sort of subject – how… Continue reading How to Win Her Heart
“The Ides of March” Series … Prompt #28 – “Write the horizon at dusk.”The horizon is melting into liquid colors of gold, amber, russet, and mauve … the colors are bending and fusing into rays of unspeakable shades, one indistinct from another. The lights of day that gave us so much energy and focus are… Continue reading Fragments of the Day
“The Ides of March” Series … Prompt #21 – “A list of sounds from the day.”From Friday, March 21st:– The ring of the phone too early in the morning … bringing sadness with the bearing of its news. – The alarm chirping into my sleep. – The alarm chirping again ten minutes later … –… Continue reading The Sounds that Fill My Day
“The Ides of March” Series … Prompt #11: “What people don’t understand.”What people don’t understand, they speak of naively and critically. They quickly pass judgment on something they know nothing about, sure that the whole world needs to agree with them because obviously there’s no way they could be wrong. The problem is, we see… Continue reading What People Don’t Understand
The “Ides of March” Series … Prompt #3 – “What this day was like five years ago.”The year was 2009. That was the year after Capernwray, the year I took off from college to figure out what I really wanted to do with my life. Unfortunately my meticulous journaling did not happen to record the… Continue reading Five Years Past
[Begun on 1.2.14 at the above coffee shop while waiting for a friend to arrive … pictures taken in Feb. 2010.]The bakery is humming with life this chilly, second day of the New Year. Baristas move back and forth, right to left, behind the counter, cheerfully gathering requests, patiently waiting, and re-stocking the pastries, sweet… Continue reading My Love Affair with Coffee Shops
She had heard of a love one time that was breathtaking in its beauty. Because she heard of its legendary beauty in so many stories, she wasn’t sure if it was just a fantasy or if such a thing actually existed. This love was noble. It was sacrificial because the other person was worth giving… Continue reading A Legendary Kind of Love
The Vintage Girl 