Several years ago a co-worker shared this amazing poem with me by Lucy Shaw: Blue homespun and the bend of my breast keep warm this small hot naked star fallen to my arms. (Rest … you who have had so far to come.) Now nearness satisfies the body of God sweetly. Quiet he lies whose [...]

For years I’ve wanted to run a little store full of treasures. The dream has taken on many different shapes, sizes and styles over the years. But one string runs through each idea…it’s a cozy wonderful little shop where friends gather. Many factors have squashed my dream, but it keeps coming back. I have a [...]

It’s been at least nine months or so that I’ve been trying to purge the extra stuff out of my house. I guess it’s a continual process with small children around. There’s a constant coming and going of toys and clothes as they grow in and out of them. My task this past week was [...]

He’s stacking!!! In these past few days, it’s FINALLY clicking. I kept wondering when I’d see the day that Nathan would stop tossing the blocks. He’s actually building with Miika. We have tons of regular letter and simple colored blocks. But what he’s really getting excited about here are the Happyville blocks. They are all [...]

Last night we were watching part of the PBS documentary, The War, by Ken Burns. This was the section about the concentration camps…very hard to watch. But it reminded me of the hypocrisy of our society. Is there really any difference between abortion and concentration camps? Big piles of bones in Nazi Germany THEN and [...]

On Sunday, I think I may have heard one of the best sermons ever! Daniel Block preached from the last chapter of Jonah (click link to listen) http://college-church.org/pastsermons.htm Jonah had just warned the people of Nineveh that they should turn from their wicked ways. They repented and were spared. But Jonah was ticked. He felt [...]

My sister-in-law forwarded this to me and I think it’s SO true. Now to live with this attitude: We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren’t old enough and we’ll be more content when they are. After that, [...]

Less than a week ago I got to wondering when Nathan’s last four eye teeth would come in? I’ve read that for kids with Down syndrome, teeth are like wild cards—less predictable than for normally developing children. Then a few days later I took a good look in his mouth and there they were! ALL [...]

At the end of the day which is sometimes the next day (1am, 2am…) I usually feel deeply exhausted. At that point, there is no margin for refueling so I just collapse into bed and then get up again, all to soon, at 5 or 6am. It’s like writing a check for more than is [...]

Hello, India, Sweden, Seychelles, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Canada, Romania and of course United States! I just checked the stats for my website to see where hits were coming from and was so happy to see that people were checking in from around the world. I’d never heard of Seychelles (islands 600 miles off the east [...]