My heart has a great sadness it can no longer contain. Our city is on fire. My family is not in danger, but my emotions are raw. Saturday morning, I got a text from my husband saying he’d seen a fire near Garden of the Gods. By Saturday evening, it was a 600 acre wild-fire causing […]
The Great Colorado Vacation of 2012
Most people who know me, or have read any number of my other blogs like Battle Plans, know that I am, by nature, a planner. That is why I am so often convicted by verses like James 4:13-15 and Matthew 6:34. If I had planned out every detail of our vacation and insisted on following a strict […]
Off the Grid
This is the second musing from our Illinois vacation. On the first morning we were visiting my husband’s small town of Strasburg, Illinois, he went out for a run, promising to be back in time for me to get mine in before he went golfing with his brothers. As the minutes dragged on, I mentally […]
Green Haze
Between recovering from the Spartan Race and the return of my husband last month, I haven’t had much of an opportunity to run or write lately. Thankfully, I was able to do both during our recent vacation in Illinois to visit family. We drove somewhere around 2,500 miles and visited St. Joseph, Peoria, Chicago and Strasburg. The […]
April Craft Days Recap
April was supposed to be for making Mother’s Day gifts, but it seems like a few of the ladies are planning to keep their creations for themselves. As always we had a wonderful time chatting around the messy desks. This time it was particularly sweet, as our conversations centered primarily around the return of our […]
Facing Conflicting Feelings After Deployment
If you read The Top 10 Ways You Know it Has Been a Long Deployment, you might have guessed that I am nearing the end of a 12 month stint of having my husband in Afghanistan. And, you would probably guess that I am elated at the prospect of having him home soon. You would be almost entirely right. […]