Live With Flair

For those of us who overthink everything, who ruminate, who infuse everything with meaning–even toenails or pencils or acorns–and who insist on diagnosing and fully

We’re driving down a two-lane road in West Virginia. We’re tired. We’re grumpy. We’re ready to be home. Then a slow-poke truck pulls in front

When I became a mother, I’ve never forgotten what the nurse said at the first appointment with that newborn baby crying beside me.  “Everything has

I’m reading Interior Freedom again by Jacques Philippe, and I’m so encouraged by this little quote:“Faith, hope, and charity. . .  if they are rooted

It’s the way the light illuminates the tips of this bloom– It’s always the light I’m watching; that’s what my photographer friends have taught me

My neighbor and I leave for the woods in search of the famed Lady Slipper Orchids. I remember the day–this same month in 2011–when I

This morning I read a quote by A.W. Tozer. He writes: “The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress

Today my youngest turns 10 years old. I’m so happy that she’s her. My prayer for her is that she, too, will be happy that’s she

I’m reading Psalm 115 and the repetitive cry of the psalmist: “Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for

I am reading again Sheldon Vanauken’s book, A Severe Mercy, a love story indeed.  As the author discusses what it was like to consider faith