God
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no. matter. what.
I copy the words that have struck me in my little journal. My tiny cursive letters mixed with tiny print ones. The tiny squares are satisfying to my eyes but I have to work hard to keep my letters in. I make them fit though, because I anticipate there is much from the pages that Continue reading
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January Yarnalong 2021
I finished Gilead by Marilynne Robinson yesterday. It is beautiful and seemed to speak so much so me. I started reading A Promised Land By Barack Obama before Christmas and I have loved it as far as I’ve gotten although this is not very far at all- maybe 7 chapters. I plan to pick it Continue reading
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and just like that
“Once I had gathered Psyche’s bones then, it seemed, all that concerned her would be over and done with. Already, even with the great act still ahead, there was flowing in upon me, from the barren years beyond it, a dejection such as I had never conceived. It was not at all like the agonies Continue reading
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wait
in the line to pick up kids after school cars moving slowly seventeen drivers not letting me in kids on benches and beneath the trees wait i feel my insides stir and boil in the check out aisle at the grocery store slow beeps and long conversations for the child to find her way to Continue reading
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Long-ish term projects and words {yarnalong}
The ladies from our church and other friends are reading a book together this season rather than doing a Bible study. I love the idea and am looking forward to the time we will all spend together. The book is One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voscamp. I’ve read it before -a few years back- and Continue reading
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Things That Are Hard
Bending. Letting go. Persevering. Trusting. Fighting for peace. Continue reading