Ready, Set, Homeschool… What I want to remember daily: Grace. Invite those precious minds to the water, wet their appetite, give them sips, but don’t let them drown! And always, always, always, hold out grace open-handed. (I love this…
I am homeschooling again this year. And the truth is that although home education is for these blond haired, open-eyed three: a laid out feast of education picked just for them, the vital importance of a strong attachment to parents for the…
I’m messy. Really messy. You should see the mahogany dresser in front of me piled with yesterday’s laundry. Though honestly, I’m glad you can’t. The truth is that I seem to need hours alone in an echoing empty house in order to…
by Linda Andersen Originally titled: They’ll Make It, Oh Yeah The happy trio skips across the parking lot. They catch my eye because they laugh. This winsome threesome laughs. On a hot and sultry day, with wars going on, jobs…
by Linda Andersen from my book of the same title: “LOVE ADDS THE CHOCOLATE” A house is a house is a house….until love comes through the door, that is. And love intuitively goes around sprinkling that special brand of angel…
Seagulls swooped. Horizon gleamed orange–crashed crimson over snowy whitecaps. Golden beaches sported polka dot people and rainbowed umbrellas. It might have been Italy, or France, or Cancun. But it was simply May in South Haven, MI: our town. The one…
The Dance She is my sister and she is luminous. I have eyes-wide-open watched as the grave opened. I was witness as the rock was slowly pried open and the white putrid cloth, suffocating life, was unwrapped one slow turn…
(Be aware, Grandma, the pictures don’t come until the end of the post!) I’ve been hungering for delight. My living has become dry boned parched. I escape into the still-dark morning, spread out on the linoleum office table,…
From Henri Nouwen’s Gracias: “More and more, the desire grows in me simply to walk around, greet people, enter their homes, sit on their doorsteps, play ball, throw water, and be known as someone who wants to live with them.…
This was the Jesus Calling devotional for July 6 and I am still feeding off it: I am your Father-God. Listen to Me! Learn what it means to be a child of the everlasting King. Your richest duty is…