by ninja | Family Uncaged
Admiring the flowers A laughing me A funny husband A goofy girl A thinking boy A happy teen A smiling dog A posing cat A harvesting of potatoes A reach-for-the-sky hollyhock The first bloom of lavender Our vining house A plot of earth A pan of garden beets A dish of...
by ninja | Heal from the past
The Lord spoke to me as I jogged by this seemingly dead tree the other day. I’m finally coming to the place where I’d like to write about it. So much of my earlier years felt like this tree–decaying, dried out, devoid of life. Sometimes our early...
by ninja | Heal from the past
Those two words are reverberating through me today as I once again try to foster discipline in my life–to spend time with Jesus, to pray, to examine my day with purpose, to eat well, to worship in song, to exercise, to bless my children with attention and...
by ninja | Family Uncaged
Pray for traveling mercies. Hooray! I come home today to my sweet family. A week is a long time to be away. Pray for my final session about writing from the inside out. It’s a good/deep/hard talk, one that I hope truly brings people face to face with...