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A Bundle of Myrrh

"My beloved is unto me as a bundle of myrrh." Song of Solomon 1:13

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Five Favorites

Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

Joining Camp Patton for this week’s favorites.

I came across some really good posts this week so I had to share them, added are great quotes from each:

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1. Hard Times, Pretty Pictures: “I post beauty, even when life is ugly.  For me, it’s the only way. Blogs have a way of deceiving, but that’s only if you choose to read them that way.  It’s a choice.  You can read that I stopped for cherries, and make all sorts of assumptions, or you can simply be reminded that we all have our good moments–you and me.” Ginny

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2.  Does It Get Easier? : “You are in a season of sowing seeds.  Accept that the fruit comes later.” Amy

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3. Courage In the Ordinary: “But I’ve come to the point where I’m not sure anymore just what God counts as radical. And I suspect that for me, getting up and doing the dishes when I’m short on sleep and patience is far more costly and necessitates more of a revolution in my heart than some of the more outwardly risky ways I’ve lived in the past. And so this is what I need now: the courage to face an ordinary day” AND “But for those of us — and there are a lot of us — who are drawn to an edgy, sizzling spirituality, we need to embrace radical ordinariness and to be grounded in the challenge of the stable mundaneness of the well-lived Christian life.” Tish

4. My 4th favorite thing this week is this drawing Clara did at school. I love that Ephraim looks like he’s sitting on the floor peeking out from behind me. And I’m glad Lily didn’t notice that she doesn’t have legs. She was very upset the last time Clara drew her without HAIR.

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5. If you have a picky eater you’ll know why I’m thrilled to add this 5th favorite. Last night Lily tried roasted potatoes for supper…and LIKED THEM. She’s a big lover of french fries of course but has never attempted potatoes in any other form. I did let her dip them in Ketchup, but ain’t no shame in that! She was pretty proud of herself…I was too.

 

 

A New Book: Family Vocation

Wednesday, June 5th, 2013

I’m very excited to begin this book by Gene Edward Veith. It’s a book on Luther’s doctrine of Vocation as it applies to our callings within our families. From chapter 2 Veith writes:

“Christians can feel that their everyday lives have no meaning. They want to escape their mundane lives by means of transcendent spiritual experience. In I Corinthians 5, we see that believers can also imagine a disconnect between their daily lives and the faith they profess. More common, though, is the notion that they have to do “spiritual things” – church work, or Bible study or witnessing – in order to serve God, sometimes at the expense o their families. This devaluing of ordinary life can be so firmly rooted in our expectations that many Christians will accept only extraordinary supernatural experiences as counting for their spiritual lives, while missing God’s presence in the ordinary and the everyday.

The doctrine of vocation, in contrast, brings the physical and the spiritual together, so that spiritual reality becomes tangible. The ordinary doesn’t need to be a burden we bear to escape when we learn to discern God’s presence in the everyday patterns of life. Physical reality, including our everyday tasks and callings, becomes transfigured with the presence of God.”

You may hear more from these pages from time to time. I think there will be a lot of great thoughts to share (Veith’s, probably not mine).

On Motherhood

Saturday, May 18th, 2013

 

Some thoughts and pictures from Mother’s Day. (Late I know, but it’s been a busy week for Mothering!)

“The deal is — Motherhood isn’t sainthood and we’re all a bunch of sinners here and don’t let anyone tell you any different — pushing something out of your womb doesn’t make you a better woman. Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father. Someone write that on a card with a bouquet of flowers. We all need that.” Ann Voskamp

 

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Getting In the Picture

Friday, March 15th, 2013

Thanks to Emily for the challenge to “Get in the picture” this week. I read this article she recommended and took that challenge.

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